Jesus Gave Me 1 Miracle Word for the Chosen — Hearing This Is Your Confirmation

It’s 2:34 a.m. I should be sleeping right now, but I can’t. I literally can’t.

About 3 hours ago, I was lying in bed and I felt this. I don’t even know how to describe it.

It wasn’t a voice exactly, but it was clearer than any voice I’ve ever heard.

And Jesus woke me up. Not gently, not peacefully. He woke me up with such urgency that my heart was racing before I even opened my eyes.

And listen, I know how this sounds. I know some of you are going to click away right now thinking this is dramatic or sensational or whatever.

But I’m sitting here in my study. It’s the middle of the night and I’m recording this because I was told commanded really to share this before Sunday.

That’s it. That’s all the time I have before Sunday morning. This message has to reach the people it’s meant for.

So here’s what happened. I was shown something. A vision, a revelation, whatever you want to call it.

And in this vision, Jesus spoke one word over a specific group of people. Just one word.

But this word, it’s so loaded with meaning. So specific, so perfectly tailored to where we are right now in history that when you hear it, if you’re one of the ones it’s meant for, you’re going to feel it in your spirit immediately.

The word is chosen. Now, before you think, well, of course you played Jesus on The Chosen.

This is just about the show. Stop right there because what I was shown has nothing to do with television, nothing to do with entertainment.

This is about something so much bigger, so much more urgent than anything Hollywood could ever produce.

In the vision, I saw a massive crowd, millions of people, and they were all wearing name tags.

You know those conference name tags you get? Every single person had one. And I was standing there trying to read them.

And at first, I thought they would have people’s names on them, but they didn’t.

They had descriptions, labels, and I started reading them as I walked through this crowd.

Church member for 40 years. Worship team leader, small group host, deacon, Sunday school teacher, prayer warrior, tither, Bible study graduate, on and on and on.

Thousands of different labels, all describing roles, positions, accomplishments in church life. And everyone was wearing their label with pride, you know, standing up straight, shoulders back, displaying what they’d done, who they were in the kingdom.

And then Jesus walked into the crowd. And I’m telling you, the atmosphere changed immediately.

It went from this kind of self-satisfied buzz to complete silence. And he started walking through the people, looking at their name tags, really looking at them, reading each one carefully.

And here’s what really got me. As he read each tag, some of them started to glow.

Just certain ones. Not most of them. Actually, not even half. Maybe. Maybe a third.

I’m not sure. But certain name tags would start glowing this brilliant gold light when Jesus looked at them.

And the people wearing those glowing tags, their faces would just they’d break. They’d start weeping, falling to their knees.

And Jesus would touch their shoulder and they’d look up at him with such relief, such overwhelming gratitude, but the others, the ones whose tags didn’t glow.

They were getting more and more agitated, confused, angry even. And they started calling out, “Lord, Lord, look at my tag.

I’ve been serving for decades. I’ve given my time, my money, my talents. Why isn’t mine glowing?”

And some of them were listing their accomplishments out loud, trying to get his attention, trying to prove they deserve the glowing tag.

And that’s when Jesus stopped walking. He stood in the middle of this crowd, and he turned slowly, looking at everyone.

And he spoke, and his voice was, it wasn’t harsh, but it was so firm, so final.

And he said, “Many are called, but few are chosen.” Then he looked directly at me, not at the crowd anymore, at me.

And he said, “Tell them why. Tell them why their tag didn’t glow. Tell them what the difference is between the called and the chosen.

Because time is almost up for them to change their tag.” And listen, I started shaking because what he showed me next was not comfortable.

It’s not a feel-good message. It’s not one of those God loves you just as you are sermons that makes everyone feel warm and fuzzy.

This is a wake-up call. This is a warning. And if you’re watching this right now at this specific time, finding this video at this specific moment, that’s not an accident, that’s confirmation that this word is for you.

So Jesus began to show me the difference. And he showed me seven specific things, seven markers that separate the called from the chosen.

And before I share them, I need you to understand something. Being called is not enough.

You can be called and still not make it. You can be invited to the wedding feast and still be thrown out for not wearing the proper garment.

You can prophesy in his name, cast out demons in his name, perform miracles in his name.

And still here, I never knew you. Matthew 22:14 says it plainly. For many are called, but few are chosen.

And we’re living in the days right now where that distinction matters more than it ever has in human history.

Because what’s coming, and it’s coming soon, so much sooner than most people realize, what’s coming is going to separate the wheat from the chaff so decisively, so completely that there won’t be any middle ground.

You know what’s interesting? In the original Greek, the word chosen, there is ecletos. It means selected, picked out, elect.

It implies a choosing that’s based on meeting specific criteria. It’s not arbitrary. It’s not random.

And it’s not just about being invited. Everyone’s invited. The call goes out to everyone.

But being chosen, that’s about your response to the call. That’s about what you did with the invitation.

So, here’s the first marker Jesus showed me. And I’m going to be honest with you, this first one convicted me personally, cut me right to the heart because I realized there were areas of my own life where I wasn’t measuring up.

The first marker of the chosen is this. They don’t just know about Jesus. They know Jesus.

Now, I know that sounds obvious, but stay with me. In the vision, Jesus showed me two groups of people side by side.

Both groups could quote scripture. Both groups attended church regularly. Both groups prayed before meals and went to Bible studies.

From the outside, you couldn’t tell them apart. But then he showed me what was happening in their private lives, in their thought lives, in their hearts when nobody else was watching.

The first group, the ones who knew about him, they treated him like a historical figure they admired, like a theology they subscribed to, like an insurance policy against hell.

They knew the right answers. They could defend the doctrines. They could win debates about apologetics.

But when they were alone, when they were driving in their car or lying in bed at night or making decisions about their money or their relationships, they didn’t consult him.

They didn’t sense his presence. They didn’t hear his voice because they didn’t actually have a relationship with him.

They had information about him. But the second group, the chosen ones, when Jesus looked at them, he smiled and he said to me, “These are my friends.

These are the ones who abide in me. When they wake up, I’m their first thought.

When they face a decision, they ask me. When they’re hurt, they run to me, not to distractions.

When they sin, they confess immediately because they can’t stand the separation. They don’t just believe I exist.

They know my voice. They recognize my leading. They’ve spent so much time with me that they’ve started to think like me, love like me, see the world like me.

And I’m telling you, when he said that, I had to pause this vision and examine my own life.

Because I played Jesus on a TV show. I spent years studying his words, his character, his mannerisms.

But do I know him? Really know him? Or have I just become an expert about him?

John 17:3 says, “And this is eternal life that they know you, the only true God and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent, not know about, know.”

Ginosco in Greek, intimate experiential knowledge, the kind of knowing that only comes from relationship, from time spent, from communion.

So that’s the first marker. And if you’re feeling a check in your spirit right now, if you’re realizing that you’ve been coasting on information rather than relationship, I’m going to lead you in a prayer at the end of this.

And we’re going to settle that right now because there’s still time. That’s the whole point of this message.

There’s still time to move from called to chosen, but not much time. The second marker he showed me is this.

The chosen have surrendered everything. Not some things, not most things, everything. And here’s where it gets uncomfortable.

Because Jesus showed me that most Christians and I mean most have negotiated with God.

They’ve given him certain areas of their life but kept others for themselves. They’ve said you can have my Sundays but my career is mine.

You can have my tithe but my free time is mine. You can have my public reputation but my private entertainment choices are mine.

You can have my words but my thoughts are mine. And in the vision, I watched Jesus approach these people and asked them lovingly but directly, “Will you give me that area you’re holding back?”

And you know what happened? Most of them hesitated, made excuses, said, “But Lord, you don’t understand.

I need this. This is different. This is important to me.” And Jesus would just stand there, hand outstretched, waiting.

And I watched person after person walk away from him sad just like the rich young ruler because they love their thing whatever it was more than they loved him.

But the chosen when he asked them to surrender something even something precious even something that hurt to let go of they did it.

Maybe not perfectly maybe not without tears or struggle. But ultimately they opened their hands and said everything I have is yours.

Take it. Take it all. I want you more than I want anything else. Luke 14:33 says, “Any of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.

Not some of what you have, all of it.” And this isn’t about living in poverty or selling everything you own.

It’s about ownership. It’s about who’s really in control. It’s about whether you’re willing to release your grip on the things you’re clutching so tightly that you can’t reach out and fully grab hold of Jesus.

Now, before I go any further, I need to stop and tell you something. When Jesus was showing me these markers, I asked him,”Lord, why are you showing me this now?

Why is this so urgent?” And his answer is what compelled me to record this at 2 30 in the morning and get it out before Sunday.

He said, “Because the sorting is about to begin, the separation. What people have been able to hide in the crowd, in the mixture, in the gray areas, it’s all about to be exposed.

Events are coming that will reveal who truly belongs to me and who’s been playing church.

And I’m giving one final opportunity for people to examine themselves, to truly surrender, to move from called to chosen before the door closes.

And when he said the door closes, I felt this overwhelming sense of finality, like a countdown that’s almost reached zero, like the last call at an airport before the gate closes and the plane takes off without you.

So, if you’re watching this and you feel that urgency in your spirit, that’s confirmation.

That’s the Holy Spirit bearing witness that this word is for you. Don’t ignore it.

Don’t brush it off. Don’t tell yourself you’ll deal with it later because what if later is too late?

So, we’ve covered two of the seven markers. Knowing Jesus personally, not just knowing about him and surrendering everything, not just some things.

And I want to keep going because what Jesus showed me next, this is where it gets really specific, really personal, and really convicting for a lot of people who consider themselves solid believers.

The third marker of the chosen is this. They’ve learned to hear his voice, and they obey it immediately.

Now, listen, this is different from just reading scripture and following general biblical principles. That’s important obviously, but what I’m talking about is the personal specific leading of the Holy Spirit in your daily life.

Those prompings, those nudges, those quiet instructions that come when you’re in communion with him.

In the vision, Jesus showed me two scenarios playing out simultaneously. In both scenarios, he was speaking to believers, giving them specific instructions.

Simple things really. Call that person and encourage them. Don’t take that job. Forgive them now.

Give that money away. Stop watching that. Go to that place. Just clear, direct instructions.

And I watched the first group of people receive these prompings and they heard them.

They definitely heard them. But then they started reasoning. Well, let me think about this.

Let me make sure this is really God and not just my own thoughts. Let me wait for confirmation.

Let me see if it makes sense. Let me check with my spouse. Let me pray about it more.

And you know what happened? They talked themselves out of it. They delayed. They negotiated.

And eventually the prompting faded and they convinced themselves it wasn’t really God after all.

But the chosen ones when they heard that voice, that prompting, they moved. Maybe they didn’t understand why.

Maybe it didn’t make logical sense. Maybe it was inconvenient or costly or embarrassing. But they’d learned to recognize his voice, and they developed a habit of immediate obedience.

And Jesus looked at them with such pleasure, such satisfaction, and he said, “These are my sheep.

They know my voice and they follow. John 10:27 says exactly that. My sheep hear my voice and I know them and they follow me.

It’s present tense, continuous action. They hear and they follow. Not they hear and they analyze.

Not they hear and they consider. They hear and they follow. And here’s what really got me about this part of the vision.

Jesus showed me that obedience is the proof of love. He took me to John 14:15 where he says, “If you love me, you will keep my commandments.”

And then he showed me all these people who sing worship songs about how much they love him, who raise their hands in church, who post scriptures on social media, who wear cross necklaces, but when he asks them to do something specific, they don’t do it.

And he said to me, “How can they say they love me when they won’t obey me?”

Would you trust someone who said they loved you, but never listened to you, never did what you asked, never prioritized what matters to you?

And that cut deep because I started thinking about my own life. How many times have I felt that prompting to do something or say something or give something and I ignored it because it was uncomfortable?

How many times did I prioritize my comfort, my schedule, my preferences over his clear leading?

The chosen have trained themselves in obedience. And I’m not talking about perfection. I’m talking about a pattern, a lifestyle, a default response of yes, Lord, instead of let me think about it, Lord.

So that’s the third marker. And I can feel some of you getting defensive right now.

I can sense it because whenever we talk about obedience, especially immediate obedience, people start thinking about control and manipulation and legalism.

But listen to me carefully. This isn’t about earning salvation through works. This isn’t about a cosmic dictator demanding compliance.

This is about love. This is about trust. This is about recognizing that the one giving the instructions knows infinitely more than you do and has your best interest at heart.

The fourth marker Jesus showed me is this. The chosen have dealt with their secret sins.

Oh man, this one. This is the one where I watch the crowd in the vision start to get really uncomfortable.

Because everybody’s got them. Everybody’s got those things they do or think or watch or consume when nobody’s looking.

Those habits they’ve justified, those compromises they’ve normalized, those little sins they’ve decided aren’t that big of a deal.

In the vision, Jesus started pulling back this veil over people’s private lives. And it was like watching a split screen.

On one side, you’d see someone in church, hands raised, worshiping, looking absolutely devoted. And on the other side, you’d see what they did on Saturday night, what they looked at on their phone, what they watched on their computer, what they thought about, what they fantasized about, the conversations they had, the places they went, the money they spent, the substances they used, the relationships they maintained, and the disconnect was staggering.

The person in public versus the person in private were almost unrecognizable as the same individual.

And Jesus said something that made my blood run cold. He said, “I never knew you.”

And I said, “But Lord, they’re in church. They’re worshiping. They believe in you.” And he said, “They believe I exist, but they don’t let me into their real life.

They’ve created this religious version of themselves that they present to me and to others.

But their actual life, their actual heart, their actual choices, those are off limits to me.

They want heaven, but they don’t want me. They want salvation, but they don’t want transformation.

And you cannot be chosen while living a double life. First John 1:6 says, “If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.”

It’s that simple. You can’t claim intimacy with Jesus while harboring secret sin. You can’t be chosen while presenting a false version of yourself because being chosen requires authenticity.

It requires bringing everything into the light. And here’s the thing that so many Christians miss.

We think that if we confess our sins to God privately, that’s enough. And yes, confession is crucial.

But James 5:16 says, “Confess your sins to one another and pray for one another that you may be healed.”

There’s something about bringing hidden things into community, into accountability, into the light with other believers that breaks the power of those sins.

The chosen aren’t perfect, but they’re not hiding. They’ve gotten ruthlessly honest about their struggles.

They’ve found safe people to be real with. They’ve stopped making excuses and started taking radical action to cut off the things that keep them in bondage.

And you know what Jesus said about that? Matthew 5:2930. If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away.

For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell.

Now, obviously, he’s using hyperbole to make a point. But the point is this. Whatever it costs to deal with your sin is worth it.

Whatever you have to cut out, cut off, cancel, delete, block, avoid, confess, or expose, do it.

Because you cannot be chosen while you’re still choosing sin over holiness. And I know some of you are thinking right now, but I’ve tried.

I’ve tried to stop. I’ve prayed about it. I’ve confessed it a hundred times, and I keep falling back into it.

Listen to me. There’s a difference between struggling with sin and harboring sin. There’s a difference between falling and failing to get back up.

There’s a difference between a person who’s genuinely fighting their flesh and crying out to God for help and a person who’s given themselves permission to continue in sin because they’ve convinced themselves it’s not that bad or God will understand or they’ll deal with it later.

The chosen are fighters. They don’t accept defeat in their spiritual life. They don’t throw up their hands and say, “Well, this is just who I am.”

They press in. They get help. They pursue deliverance. They do whatever it takes. Now, here’s the fifth marker.

And this one is going to step on some toes. The chosen have examined their relationships and made hard choices about who stays in their inner circle.

In the vision, Jesus showed me people surrounded by other people, family members, friends, co-workers, even church members.

And he showed me how certain relationships were slowly poisoning them, pulling them away from him, normalizing compromise, mocking their devotion, creating drama and distraction, feeding their flesh instead of their spirit.

And I watched as he approached these people and said, “This relationship is costing you your calling.

You need to create distance. You need to set boundaries. In some cases, you need to completely walk away.”

And you know what happened? Most of them refused. They said, “But Lord, this is my family.

This is my best friend. This is someone I’ve known for years. I can’t just cut them off.

What would people think? It would be too hard, too painful, too complicated.” And Jesus just stood there heartbroken watching them choose those relationships over him.

But the chosen, they made the hard calls. They had the difficult conversations. They set the boundaries.

They created the distance. And yes, it hurt. Yes, they were misunderstood. Yes, they were accused of being judgmental or holier than thou or thinking they were too good for people.

But they understood what was at stake. 1 Corinthians 15:33 says, “Do not be deceived.

Bad company ruins good morals.” And 2 Corinthians 6:14 asks, “What partnership has righteousness with lawlessness?

What fellowship has light with darkness?” These aren’t suggestions. These are warnings. Your relationships will either move you toward Jesus or away from him.

There’s no neutral. And listen, this doesn’t mean you cut off every unbeliever or every person who’s struggling.

Jesus ate with sinners. He spent time with tax collectors and prostitutes. But here’s the key.

He was influencing them. He wasn’t being influenced by them. He was the light in the darkness, not the darkness in the light.

So the question you have to ask yourself is this. In your relationships, are you the influencer or the influenced?

Are you pulling people toward Jesus or are they pulling you away from him? Are you stronger in your faith because of this relationship or weaker?

Does this person celebrate your devotion to God or do they mock it? Do they encourage your obedience or do they tempt you toward compromise?

The chosen have gotten real about this. They’ve looked at their contacts list, their social media follows, their Friday night plans, and they’ve made some painful but necessary changes because they understand that you can’t soar with eagles if you’re running with turkeys.

Now, the sixth marker is about generosity, but it’s not what you think. The chosen aren’t just givers.

Lots of people give. They give their 10%. They give to charity. They give when there’s a natural disaster or a compelling GoFundMe.

But the chosen have learned supernatural generosity. The kind that doesn’t make sense. The kind that costs something.

The kind that requires faith. In the vision, Jesus showed me two groups of givers.

The first group calculated their giving. They had a budget, a plan, a system. They gave responsibly.

They gave what they could afford. They gave what seemed wise. And there’s nothing wrong with that necessarily.

Stewardship is good. Planning is good. But then he showed me the chosen ones. And when he prompted them to give, they didn’t calculate.

They obeyed. Even when it meant giving away money, they’d earmarked for something else. Even when it meant their own needs would go unmet, even when it didn’t make financial sense, they’d learned to trust him as their source, not their bank account.

And I watched in the vision as these chosen ones gave radically. Sometimes anonymously, sometimes to people who couldn’t repay them, sometimes to causes that nobody else thought were important.

And every single time Jesus would look at them with such delight, and he’d say, “Well done.

You’ve learned to hold everything with open hands. You’ve learned that I’m your provider. You’ve learned that you can’t outgive me.”

Luke 6:38 says, “Give and it will be given to you. Good measure pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap.

For with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you. But the chosen aren’t giving to get.

They’re giving because they trust. They’re giving because they’ve experienced the supernatural provision that comes when you obey God’s prompings about generosity, even when it seems crazy.

And here’s what Jesus showed me about this. He said, “In what’s coming, in the shaking that’s about to happen, those who’ve learned to trust me as their source will not be moved.

Those who’ve held their resources with open hands will find that I multiply what they need.

But those who’ve gripped tightly, who’ve hoarded, who’ve calculated and played it safe, they’re going to panic because their security is in what they have, not in who I am.

So that’s six markers, six ways the chosen are different from the called. And I know this is a lot.

I know some of you are feeling overwhelmed right now, maybe even discouraged because you’re measuring yourself against these markers and realizing you’re falling short in some areas.

Maybe all areas. But listen to me. This message isn’t meant to condemn you. Romans 8:1 says, “There’s no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

This message is meant to wake you up, to help you see where you need to grow, where you need to surrender, where you need to change, because there’s still time.

That’s the whole point. There’s still time to move from called to chosen. But that time is running out.

And the seventh marker, the one I haven’t shared yet, is the most important one.

It’s the one that ties all the others together. It’s the one that Jesus emphasized more than any of the others.

And when he showed me this seventh marker, I understood why he woke me up at midnight and told me to get this message out before Sunday.

Because what’s coming, and it’s coming so soon, what’s coming is going to require this seventh marker.

Without it, none of the other six will matter. Without it, you won’t make it through what’s ahead.

Without it, you’ll be among the called but not among the chosen. So before I share the seventh marker, I need to tell you what happened next in the vision because this is where everything shifted.

This is where I went from being an observer to being I don’t even know how to describe it.

A participant, a witness, someone who is personally accountable for delivering this message. Jesus turned to me and the entire crowd disappeared.

It was just me and him and the look on his face. I’ve spent years studying Jesus, trying to portray him, trying to understand his expressions and his emotions.

But this look I’d never seen before. It was compassion mixed with urgency mixed with something that almost looked like desperation.

Is that even possible? Can Jesus be desperate? But that’s what it felt like. Like he was pleading with me to understand the weight of what he was about to say.

And he put his hand on my shoulder and he said, “The seventh marker is the one that most of my church is missing.

It’s the one that Satan has successfully convinced my people they don’t need. It’s the one that will determine whether someone stands or falls in what’s coming.

And it’s the one that requires the most courage, the most faith, the most willingness to be misunderstood and rejected.”

And then he said something that made my stomach drop. He said, “The chosen are willing to be hated for my sake.”

The seventh marker is this. The chosen have counted the cost of true disciplehip and they’ve decided that Jesus is worth losing everything for.

Now, before you think, well, I love Jesus. I’d die for him if I had to listen to what he showed me.

Because it’s one thing to say you die for Jesus in some hypothetical martyrdom scenario.

It’s another thing entirely to live for him when that means being rejected by your family.

Losing your job, being labeled as extreme or intolerant or crazy, being excluded from social circles, being mocked on social media, being gossiped about at church.

In the vision, Jesus showed me a line being drawn. A clear visible line in the sand.

And he showed me what’s about to happen in the world, in the church, in society.

He showed me how the pressure to compromise is going to intensify beyond anything we’ve seen before.

How Christians are going to be forced to choose between keeping their faith private and acceptable or making it public and paying a price.

And I watched people approach this line, thousands of them. And on one side of the line was comfort, acceptance, security, reputation, relationships, career advancement, financial stability.

On the other side was Jesus standing alone, hand outstretched, asking people to cross over to him and the cost of crossing that line, everything on the other side.

Not hypothetically, actually really literally losing the things you’d have to leave behind. And you know what I watched happen?

Most people wouldn’t cross. They stood at the line looking back and forth between Jesus and everything else.

And they tried to negotiate. They said, “Can’t I have both? Can’t I follow you and keep my reputation?

Can’t I obey you and maintain these relationships? Can’t I stand for truth and avoid conflict?

And Jesus just shook his head. And he said what he said 2,000 years ago.

No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other.

And then he said, “Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me.

And whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. And whoever does not take up his cross and follow me is not worthy of me.”

Matthew 10:378. Those aren’t my words. Those are his words. And we’ve domesticated them. We’ve softened them.

We’ve turned them into nice religious platitudes. But Jesus meant exactly what he said. Following him costs everything.

And the chosen are the ones who’ve accepted that cost. Now, here’s what’s happening right now, today, in our world.

The pressure is building. The lines are being drawn more clearly than they’ve been in decades, maybe centuries, and Christians are being faced with a choice.

Do you stay silent when culture demands you affirm what God calls sin? Do you compromise your convictions to keep your job?

Do you hide your faith to maintain your social status? Do you water down the gospel to avoid being called names?

And I’m watching. We’re all watching as the majority of people who call themselves Christians are choosing comfort over Christ.

They’re choosing acceptance over obedience. They’re choosing the approval of people over the approval of God.

And they’re convincing themselves that this is wisdom, that this is love, that this is what Jesus would want.

But the chosen, they’re crossing the line. They’re speaking the truth even when their voice shakes.

They’re standing firm even when they stand alone. They’re losing friendships and opportunities and sometimes even family relationships.

And they’re doing it with grief, but also with resolve because they’ve decided that Jesus is worth it.

Second Timothy 3:12 says, “Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.

Not might be, will be. It’s a guarantee. And if you’re living a Christian life that costs you nothing, that offends no one, that requires no courage, then you have to ask yourself, am I really living a godly life, or am I living a culturally acceptable version of Christianity that Jesus doesn’t recognize?

In the vision, Jesus said to me, tell them that the days of comfortable Christianity are over.

Tell them that what’s coming will separate the pretenders from the genuine believers. Tell them that they need to decide now before the pressure increases who they’re going to serve.

Because when the real persecution begins, when the real cost becomes apparent, it will be too late to develop the spiritual backbone they need.

And listen, I know that sounds dramatic. I know some of you are thinking, “We’re not facing real persecution.

We’re not being thrown to lions or burned at the stake.” And you’re right, not yet.

But Jesus showed me what’s coming, and it’s closer than you think. He showed me a timeline and I’m going to share some of that with you in a moment.

But first, I need you to understand something crucial. The chosen aren’t waiting for persecution to prove their loyalty.

They’re proving it now in the small things. They’re practicing courage in everyday moments. They’re learning to swim in shallow water so they’ll be ready when the flood comes.

Because if you won’t speak truth to your coworker now, you won’t speak it to a government official later.

If you won’t stand up to family pressure now, you won’t stand up to mob pressure later.

If you won’t risk your reputation now, you won’t risk your life later. The chosen are in training.

And most of the church doesn’t even realize there’s a test coming. So now, let me tell you what Jesus showed me about the timeline.

Because this is the part that made me realize why this message has to get out before Sunday.

He showed me that we’re entering a season starting very soon, and I mean weeks, not years, where the separation between the called and the chosen is going to become visible.

Events are going to unfold, both in the natural and in the spiritual realm, that will force people to declare where they stand.

He didn’t give me specific dates for everything, but he showed me markers, signposts, things to watch for that will indicate we’re entering the season of sorting.

And listen, some of these things are already happening. Some of them are on the news right now.

Some of them you’re feeling in your own spirit. This sense that something is shifting, something is changing.

The spiritual atmosphere is getting heavier. He showed me economic shaking. Not a total collapse, not yet, but enough instability that people’s sense of security in their wealth and their jobs and their retirement plans is going to be seriously rattled.

And this shaking is intentional. It’s designed to reveal where people have placed their trust.

And the chosen, the ones who’ve learned to trust God as their source, they’re going to have a peace that makes no natural sense.

While everyone around them is panicking, they’re going to be stable and people are going to notice.

He showed me religious deception increasing dramatically. False prophets, false teachers, false apostles rising up with signs and wonders that look real, that sound biblical, but are leading people away from the narrow path.

And these aren’t going to be obvious wolves. They’re going to be charismatic leaders with huge platforms and impressive credentials.

And they’re going to tell people what they want to hear. That they can have Jesus in the world.

That God’s okay with their compromise. That judgment isn’t real. That everyone gets to heaven eventually.

And the called, the ones who don’t really know Jesus for themselves. They’re going to be deceived.

They’re going to follow these leaders because it’s easier, because it’s more comfortable, because it doesn’t require anything hard.

But the chosen are going to recognize the deception because they know his voice. They’ve spent enough time in his presence and in his word that they can spot a counterfeit.

He showed me persecution ramping up, but in ways that are socially acceptable. Job loss for refusing to comply with certain mandates or requirements.

Social ostracism for holding to biblical values. Financial pressure through banking and payment systems. Legal consequences for speech that’s labeled as hate.

It’s not going to look like Roman persecution with lions and crosses. It’s going to look like modern cancellation and control, but the effect will be the same.

Forcing people to choose between Jesus and everything else. And he showed me something else.

He showed me that the rapture, the catching away of the church is closer than most people think.

Now listen, I’m not setting dates. Jesus himself said no one knows the day or the hour.

But he also said we’d know the season. He gave us signs to watch for.

And everything he showed me in this vision confirms that we are in that season, not approaching it, in it.

And here’s what broke my heart. He showed me that when the rapture happens, the number of people who call themselves Christians but get left behind is going to be staggering, devastating.

Churches are going to still have most of their people in the pews because most of the people in the pews were called but not chosen.

They knew about Jesus but didn’t know him. They believed in salvation but never surrendered.

They attended church but lived for themselves. Matthew 7:21-2:3 Jesus said, “Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my father who is in heaven.

On that day, many will say to me, Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and cast out demons in your name and do many mighty works in your name?”

And then will I declare to them, “I never knew you. Depart from me. You workers of lawlessness.

Many, not few. Many. That word should terrify every single person who calls themselves a Christian because it means the majority of people who think they’re saved, who think they’re ready, who think they’re going in the rapture are wrong, and they’re going to find out too late.

Now, I’m sitting here at almost 3:30 in the morning. And I’m shaking as I’m telling you this because the weight of it is almost unbearable.

The responsibility of delivering this message knowing that some people will hear it and change and some people will hear it and dismiss it and some people won’t hear it at all because they’ll click away or never see this video.

It’s overwhelming. But I can’t let that stop me because Jesus looked me in the eyes and said, “Tell them, sound the alarm.

Give them one more chance to examine themselves, to truly surrender, to move from called to chosen because my mercy is still available.

My grace is still sufficient. My door is still open, but not for much longer.

So, here’s what I need you to do right now. Before you watch another video, before you scroll to something else, before you go to bed, I need you to stop and really examine yourself against these seven markers.

Not casually, not defensively, honestly. Do you know Jesus personally or just about him? Have you surrendered everything or are you still holding back areas of your life?

Do you hear his voice and obey immediately or do you negotiate and delay? Have you dealt with your secret sins or are you still hiding things?

Have you examined your relationships and made hard choices or are you still allowing people to pull you away from him?

Have you learned supernatural generosity or are you still gripping tightly to your resources? And have you counted the cost and decided Jesus is worth losing everything for?

Or are you still trying to have it both ways? Be honest. Brutally honest, because your eternity depends on it.

And if you’re realizing right now that you’ve been called but not chosen, there’s still time to change that.

Right now, today, this moment, the door is still open. His arms are still outstretched.

His mercy is still available. But you have to act. You have to respond. You have to make the choice to fully surrender, to fully commit, to fully follow him, no matter what it costs.

You know what happened after Jesus showed me these seven markers? The vision didn’t end.

I thought it would. I thought he’d shown me what he wanted me to see, and I’d wake up and process it and share it.

But instead the vision intensified and what he showed me next. Um, this is what made me understand that we’re not just in a season of testing.

We’re in the final countdown. The last call, the closing moments before everything changes. He took me to a different scene and this time I was standing in what looked like a massive airport terminal.

You know those departure boards that show all the flights and their status? There was one of those, but instead of flight numbers and destinations, it had names.

Thousands of names scrolling by. And next to each name was a status. Ready, not ready, almost ready, deceived, asleep, backsliden.

And I watched these names scroll by, and the ratio was devastating. For every one person marked ready, there were dozens marked something else.

And I turned to Jesus, and I said, “Lord, how is this possible? How are there so many my people who aren’t ready?

They’re in church. They believe in you. They pray. They give. They serve. And he said something I’ll never forget.

He said, “They’ve believed a version of me that doesn’t exist. They’ve created a Jesus who makes them comfortable, who asks nothing difficult of them, who approves of their choices, who fits into their life instead of demanding their life.

And when the real me shows up, when the real cost becomes clear, they realize they never actually knew me at all.

Then he showed me something that made my blood run cold. He showed me the moment of the rapture.

And I’m not talking about the left behind movies version or the flowery descriptions you hear in prophecy conferences.

I’m talking about what it’s actually going to be like for the people who get left behind.

He showed me a church service, Sunday morning, worship team on stage, people singing, hands raised, pastor preparing to preach.

And in an instant, a fraction of a second, some people disappeared. Not half the congregation, not even a quarter, maybe one in 10, maybe less.

And the ones who remained, the confusion on their faces turned to panic, then to denial, then to this horrible realization.

And I watched the pastor still standing there, still holding his Bible, looking out at his congregation with this expression of absolute horror because he was still there.

He’d preached a thousand sermons about Jesus, led hundreds of people in the sinner’s prayer, built a ministry with thousands of members, but he was still there.

Because he’d been called, but not chosen. He’d built a career on Jesus, but never fully surrendered to Jesus.

And I watched people in that church start making excuses. Maybe it wasn’t the rapture.

Maybe those people just, I don’t know, had some kind of medical event simultaneously. Maybe there’s a logical explanation because the alternative accepting that they’d been left behind was too terrible to face.

But then the reports started coming in from churches all over the city, all over the country, all over the world, small numbers of people vanishing.

And slowly, horribly, the truth became undeniable. It had happened. The rapture had occurred and they’d missed it.

And Jesus said to me, “Do you see why this message is so urgent? Do you see why I’m giving people one more chance to examine themselves?

Because once that moment comes, there’s no going back. The door will be shut. And what comes after?”

He paused. And the grief on his face was unbearable. What comes after is the tribulation, and it will be worse than anything humanity has ever experienced.

Now, I need to pause here and address something because I know there are different theological views about the rapture.

Some people believe in a pre-tribulation rapture, some mid-trip, some post-trib. Some don’t believe in a rapture at all.

And listen, I’m not here to argue theology or debate esquetology. I’m here to tell you what Jesus showed me.

And what he showed me was a catching away of his bride before the worst of the tribulation, but not before the pressure and the testing and the sorting.

He showed me that we’re already in the birth pains. The contractions are getting closer together, more intense, and there’s going to be a period, and we’re entering it now, where true believers will face increasing pressure and persecution, not to punish them, but to purify them, to prepare them, to separate the wheat from the chaff.

And then when that process is complete, when the church is finally ready, when the chosen have been fully refined, that’s when the catching away happens.

But here’s what so many people miss. That refining process. It’s not comfortable. It’s not easy.

It requires you to be truly surrendered, truly committed, truly willing to lose everything. Because the bride of Christ isn’t some lukewarm, compromised, worldly version of the church.

It’s a remnant, a purified, holy, devoted remnant that’s made herself ready. Revelation 19:7 says, “Let us rejoice and exalt and give him the glory for the marriage of the lamb has come and his bride has made herself ready.”

Made herself ready. That’s active. That’s intentional. That’s a choice. And the chosen are the ones making that choice right now.

So Jesus showed me all of this and then he brought me back to the present moment, back to my bedroom where I was lying there at midnight, heart racing, face wet with tears.

And he said, “You need to understand something. This message isn’t just for the people who will watch your video.

This message is a test. It’s going to divide people into three groups. And how they respond will reveal which category they’re in.”

And this is exactly what I’ve seen happen every time I’ve shared something prophetic or urgent.

Every single time, people divide into these three groups. And their response is like a spiritual diagnostic test revealing the condition of their heart.

The first group, and these are the chosen ones, they receive the word with trembling.

Even if it’s convicting, even if it’s uncomfortable, even if it requires them to make changes, they embrace it because they recognize the voice of the shepherd.

They might weep. They might repent. They might feel overwhelmed by how far they’ve strayed, but they respond.

They act. They surrender. And you know what? These are the people who always thank me later.

They say, “That message woke me up. That message changed my trajectory. That message saved my life.

The second group gets defensive. Immediately defensive. They start picking apart the message, questioning the messenger, finding reasons why it doesn’t apply to them.

They’ll say things like, “That’s too harsh. That’s fear-mongering. That’s manipulation. God isn’t like that.

My Jesus is a Jesus of love, not judgment. You’re being extreme. You’re being legalistic.”

And listen, I’m not saying we shouldn’t test prophecy or examine what we hear. 1 Thessalonians 5:21 says to test everything and hold fast to what is good.

But there’s a difference between spiritually discerning whether a word is from God and defensively rejecting a word because it requires something of you that you don’t want to give.

And usually these defensive people, they’re the ones who are most at risk because their defensiveness reveals that the message hit a nerve.

It exposed something they’re not ready to deal with. And instead of letting it do the surgery it was meant to do in their heart, they push it away and convince themselves that the problem is with the message, not with them.

The third group is maybe the most tragic. They’re indifferent. They watch the video while scrolling through their phone.

They half listen while thinking about what they’re going to watch next. It washes over them without penetrating, and they click away without a second thought, completely unmoved, completely unchanged.

And these are the ones who are asleep, spiritually asleep. They’re not hostile to the gospel.

They’re not even defensive. They’re just numb, distracted, comfortable in their complacency. And Jesus said to me, “The first group is chosen.

The second group still has a chance if they’ll humble themselves and stop fighting conviction.

But the third group, they’re in the most danger because they don’t even realize they’re in danger.

They’re like the five foolish virgins who didn’t bring extra oil. They think they’re fine.

They think they’re ready. And they’re going to be shocked when the door is shut and they’re left outside.

Now, here’s what I want you to understand. If you’re still watching this video right now, at this point, you’re probably not in the third group.

The indifferent ones clicked away a long time ago. So, that means you’re either in the first group or the second.

You’re either receiving this word and allowing it to work in you or you’re fighting it.

And if you’re fighting it, I want to ask you something. What are you afraid of?

What are you protecting? What would you have to give up or change if you fully embraced what Jesus is saying through this message?

Because that thing, whatever it is, that’s your golden calf. That’s your idol. That’s the thing standing between you and being chosen.

Maybe it’s a relationship. Maybe it’s an ambition. Maybe it’s a secret sin. Maybe it’s your reputation.

Maybe it’s your comfort. Maybe it’s your need to be liked. Maybe it’s your financial security.

Maybe it’s your independence. Whatever it is, Jesus is asking you to lay it on the altar.

Just like he asked Abraham to lay Isaac on the altar. And the question is, will you do it?

Because here’s the thing about Abraham. He didn’t just say he trusted God. He proved it.

He took his son, his promised son, the one he’d waited decades for, the one everything depended on, and he raised the knife.

He was willing to sacrifice the thing he loved most because he loved God more.

And God stopped him and provided a ram instead. But the willingness had to be there.

The surrender had to be real. And God is looking for that same kind of faith right now.

He’s looking for people who will say, “God, I’m laying it all on the altar.

Everything I have, everything I love, everything I want, everything I am, it’s all yours.

If you ask me to walk away from it, I will. If you ask me to give it up, I will.

If you ask me to sacrifice it, I will. Because you’re worth more to me than anything else.

That’s the faith of the chosen. And it’s not something you can fake. It’s not something you can manufacture with willpower.

It comes from genuinely encountering Jesus, from really knowing him, from experiencing his love so deeply that everything else pales in comparison.

You know what’s interesting? In the vision after Jesus showed me these three groups of responses, he showed me something else.

He showed me that there’s a supernatural grace available right now for people who are willing to surrender.

Like there’s a window of time and we’re in it where the Holy Spirit is moving with unusual intensity, drawing people, convicting people, empowering people to make changes they couldn’t make in their own strength.

He said, “This is the hour of mercy. This is the season of grace. I’m pouring out my spirit on anyone who’s hungry, anyone who’s desperate, anyone who’s willing to respond.

And for those who do, I’m going to supernaturally enable them to become who they need to be.

I’m going to break addictions that have held them for decades. I’m going to heal wounds that have crippled them spiritually.

I’m going to open their eyes to see what they’ve been blind to. I’m going to give them courage they’ve never had before, but they have to respond.

They have to reach out their hand and take what I’m offering. And I felt this overwhelming sense of hope when he said that because yes, the message is urgent.

Yes, the warnings are serious. Yes, the requirements are high. But he’s not leaving us to figure it out in our own strength.

He’s offering his strength, his power, his grace. And it’s sufficient. It’s more than sufficient.

2 Corinthians 12:9. My grace is sufficient for you. For my power is made perfect in weakness.

Whatever you think you can’t do, whatever seems too hard, whatever feels impossible, his grace is sufficient.

But you have to humble yourself and admit you need it. You have to stop pretending you’ve got it all together and cry out for his help.

So, here’s what I’m going to do in a moment. I’m going to lead you in a prayer.

And this isn’t just a repeat after me religious formality. This is going to be a prayer of complete surrender.

A prayer where you’re going to lay everything on the altar and declare that Jesus is Lord of every area of your life.

And if you pray this prayer with sincerity, with genuine repentance and surrender, something is going to shift in your spirit.

The Holy Spirit is going to meet you and you’re going to begin the journey from called to chosen.

But before I do that, I need to tell you one more thing Jesus showed me because this is the part that’s specifically time-sensitive.

This is why the message has to get out before Sunday. So Jesus showed me something specific about this coming Sunday.

And when he showed me this, I understood why the urgency was so intense, why he woke me up in the middle of the night, why this message couldn’t wait.

He showed me that this Sunday there’s going to be a spiritual marker, a line in the sand moment.

Now, it’s not that something visible is going to happen that everyone will recognize. It’s not like the sky is going to open up or there’s going to be some dramatic sign.

But in the spiritual realm, something is shifting, a door is closing, a season is ending, and a new, more intense season is beginning.

He said to me, “After this Sunday, the grace period for casual Christianity is over.

After this Sunday, the pressure intensifies. After this Sunday, people will no longer be able to straddle the fence.

They’ll be forced to choose. And that choosing will cost them something significant. And he showed me that this message, this word about the difference between called and chosen is being released this weekend as a final mercy, a final warning, a final opportunity for people to make the necessary changes before the door closes and the easy season ends.

Now, listen to me carefully. I’m not saying that after Sunday salvation isn’t available. I’m not saying that after Sunday people can’t repent.

That’s not what this is about. What I’m saying is that after Sunday the cost goes up, the difficulty increases, the testing intensifies, and the people who haven’t already begun the process of truly surrendering, truly following, truly becoming chosen, they’re going to find the road significantly harder.

It’s like what happened with the Israelites at the edge of the promised land. God gave them an opportunity.

He said, “Go in and take the land. I’ve given it to you.” But they were afraid.

They doubted. They refused. And you know what God said? He said, “Fine. You missed your window.

Now you’re going to wander in the wilderness for 40 years until this generation dies off.”

The opportunity didn’t disappear forever. But the easy moment passed. And what could have happened quickly and relatively simply instead became long and painful.

That’s where we are right now. We’re at a threshold moment. And what you decide this weekend, how you respond to this message, whether you truly surrender or continue to hold back, it’s going to determine whether you walk into what’s next with confidence and peace, or whether you stumble through it in confusion and struggle.

So, here’s what I want you to do before Sunday. I want you to get alone with God.

Turn off your phone. Turn off the TV. Get away from distractions. And I want you to ask him point blank, am I called or chosen?

Do I really know you or do I just know about you? Have I truly surrendered everything or am I holding back?

Am I ready for what’s coming or am I deceiving myself? And then be quiet and listen.

Don’t rush to answer your own question. Don’t defensively reassure yourself. Actually, listen for his voice.

And if he shows you areas where you’re falling short, don’t get discouraged. Don’t get condemned.

Just repent. Just surrender. Just make the changes he’s asking you to make. Because listen, the whole point of this message isn’t to scare you.

It’s not to shame you. It’s not to make you feel like you can never measure up.

The point is to wake you up while there’s still time to wake up. To sound the alarm while the alarm can still make a difference.

To offer you the opportunity to move from called to chosen while that movement is still possible.

And I’m telling you with everything in me, with all the conviction I have, this is a divine appointment.

The fact that you’re hearing this message right now at this specific time is not a coincidence.

Out of billions of people on the planet, you’re one of the ones who’s hearing this word this weekend.

And that’s because God is calling you. He’s drawing you. He’s pursuing you. He wants you to be among the chosen.

But he won’t force you. He won’t override your will. He’s standing at the door and knocking, but you have to open it.

You have to respond. You have to make the choice. Now, before I lead you in this prayer, I want to address something that I know some of you are thinking.

You’re thinking, “I’ve tried before. I’ve surrendered before. I’ve prayed prayers of commitment before, and I always end up back in the same place.

What makes this time different?” And here’s what I want you to understand. This time is different because you’re not doing it in your own strength.

You’re not white knuckling your way through spiritual disciplines. You’re not trying to earn God’s approval or maintain your salvation through effort.

What we’re talking about is a genuine encounter with Jesus that transforms you from the inside out.

It’s the Holy Spirit doing the work in you, not you doing the work for God.

Romans 8:13 says, “For if you live according to the flesh, you will die. But if by the spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live by the spirit.”

That’s the key. The spirit empowers you to do what you could never do on your own.

And when you genuinely surrender, when you genuinely cry out for help, the spirit moves.

Things change. Chains break. Blinders fall off. And you find yourself with desires you didn’t have before, strength you didn’t have before, clarity you didn’t have before.

I’ve seen it happen countless times. People who were trapped in addictions for decades suddenly set free.

People who were spiritually dead suddenly awakened. People who couldn’t hear God’s voice suddenly able to recognize his leading not because they tried harder but because they finally stopped trying to do it themselves and let God do it in them.

So as we go into this prayer I want you to come with expectation. Come believing that God is going to meet you.

Come believing that something is going to shift. Come believing that this is your moment, your opportunity, your divine appointment to move from called to chosen.

And listen, this prayer isn’t magic words. It’s not a formula. What matters is the posture of your heart.

What matters is whether you mean it. So don’t just repeat words after me. Let these words express what’s really happening in your spirit.

Let them articulate the surrender that’s taking place in your heart. Okay? If you’re ready, if you’re willing, if you’re serious about this, I want you to bow your head.

And if you can, get on your knees. There’s something about physically kneeling that helps your spirit recognize the gravity of what’s happening.

And if you’re in a place where you can’t kneel, that’s fine. But at least bow your head and close your eyes and focus completely on this moment.

Here’s the prayer. Father God, I come to you right now with a humble heart and a repentant spirit.

And Lord, I’m going to be completely honest with you. I’ve been playing games. I’ve been pretending.

I’ve called myself a Christian, but I haven’t truly lived like one. I’ve kept certain areas of my life off limits to you.

I’ve served you with my words, but not with my whole heart. I’ve wanted your blessings but not your lordship.

I’ve wanted heaven but not holiness. And I’m so sorry. I’m so deeply sorry, Jesus.

I confess that I’ve settled for being called when you’ve been inviting me to be chosen.

I’ve settled for knowing about you instead of truly knowing you. I’ve settled for religion instead of relationship.

I’ve settled for comfort instead of the cross. And I don’t want to settle anymore.

I don’t want to be among the many who say, “Lord, Lord,” but are turned away.

I don’t want to be left behind when you come for your bride. I don’t want to miss what you have for me because I was too stubborn or too scared or too distracted to fully surrender.

So right now in this moment, I’m laying everything on the altar. My relationships, even the ones I treasure most.

My career and my ambitions and my plans. My money and my possessions and my security.

My reputation and what people think of me. My comfort and my preferences and my rights, my time and my energy and my future, my secret sins and my hidden shame and my private compromises.

I’m laying it all down. All of it. Everything. And I’m asking you to take control.

Complete control, not partial control, where I invite you into the areas I’m comfortable with and keep the rest for myself.

Complete control. Be Lord of every area, every relationship, every decision, every thought, every desire, every moment.

Holy Spirit, I’m asking you to fill me. Empower me. Transform me. Give me the strength to do what I can’t do on my own.

Break the chains that have held me. Open my eyes to see what I’ve been blind to.

Open my ears to hear your voice clearly. Give me courage to obey even when it costs me something.

Give me faith to trust you even when I can’t see the outcome. Give me love for you that’s greater than my love for anything or anyone else.

Jesus, I declare that you are worth it. You’re worth the cost. You’re worth the sacrifice.

You’re worth losing everything for. Because compared to knowing you, everything else is garbage. Compared to having you.

Everything else is worthless and I choose you today, right now, with everything in me.

I choose you. Make me chosen, Lord. Not just called, but chosen. Not just invited, but selected.

Not just religious, but righteous. Not just a hearer of the word, but a doer.

Not just someone who believes in you, but someone who follows you, knows you, loves you, and is fully devoted to you.

I surrender completely, totally, without reservation. Have your way in my life. Do whatever you need to do to prepare me for what’s coming.

Refine me, purify me, test me, strengthen me, use me. And when you come for your bride, let me be found ready.

Let me be found watching. Let me be found faithful. I pray this in the powerful name of Jesus.

Amen. Now, if you prayed that prayer and you meant it, I need you to do something.

I need you to type I surrender in the comments. Not for me, for you.

Because there’s something powerful about publicly declaring what you’ve privately committed to. It makes it real.

It creates accountability. And it lets other people see that they’re not alone in making this decision.

And listen, I’m going to be reading those comments. I’m going to be praying over every single person who declares their surrender because this is just the beginning.

This prayer is the starting line, not the finish line. And you’re going to need support and encouragement and continued teaching as you walk out this new level of commitment.

So, type I surrender in the comments. And then I also want you to share any prayer requests you have because the chosen aren’t lone rangers.

We’re a community. We’re a family. We’re the body of Christ. And we need each other.

We need to pray for each other. We need to encourage each other. We need to stand together as the pressure increases and the world pushes back against our faith.

And if you haven’t already, subscribe to this channel because I’m going to continue sharing what Jesus shows me.

I’m going to continue sounding the alarm. I’m going to continue equipping and encouraging the chosen ones who are preparing for what’s coming.

And you need to be part of that. You need to stay connected to these messages.

Now, here’s what’s going to happen over the next few days. If you genuinely surrendered, if that prayer was real, you’re going to start noticing things.

You’re going to notice opportunities to obey that you might have missed before. You’re going to notice convictions about things you need to change.

You’re going to notice prompting to reach out to people or give to causes or speak truth in situations where you’d normally stay silent.

And here’s what I need you to do. Obey immediately. Don’t analyze. Don’t hesitate. Don’t wait for perfect conditions.

When you feel that prompting, that’s the Holy Spirit leading you. And if you want to develop the habit of hearing his voice and following him, you have to practice immediate obedience.

Every time you obey, it gets easier to hear him the next time. Every time you delay or ignore, it gets harder.

You’re also going to face some tests. I can almost guarantee it. Because the enemy doesn’t want you to move from called to chosen.

He doesn’t want you to be part of the bride that’s ready when Jesus’s returns.

So, he’s going to throw some things at you to try to discourage you, to make you doubt, to pull you back into old patterns.

Maybe it’ll be a relationship conflict. Maybe it’ll be a financial pressure. Maybe it’ll be a temptation to fall back into a sin you just surrendered.

Maybe it’ll be mockery from people you care about. Whatever it is, recognize it for what it is.

A test. An opportunity to prove that your surrender was real. An opportunity to choose Jesus over whatever else is competing for your loyalty.

And when those tests come, not if, but when. Don’t be surprised. Don’t be discouraged.

Don’t think you did something wrong. 1 Peter 4:12 says, “Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you as though something strange were happening to you.

This is normal. This is expected. This is part of the refining process. But here’s the promise.

You’re not going through it alone. Jesus is with you. The Holy Spirit is empowering you.

And there’s a community of other chosen ones who are going through the same process, facing the same tests, fighting the same battles.

And together, we’re going to make it. Together, we’re going to be ready. Together, we’re going to hear, “Well done, good and faithful servant.

It’s now almost 4:00 a.m., and I can’t stop. I know I should probably rest, probably take a break from recording, but every time I think about stopping, I feel this urgency rise up in my spirit again, like there’s more that needs to be said.

More that Jesus wants me to share before Sunday comes. And I’ve learned over the years that when you feel that kind of urgency from the Holy Spirit, you don’t ignore it.

You don’t put it off. You obey immediately. So, there’s something else Jesus showed me in the vision that I haven’t told you yet.

And this part, this part is specifically for those of you who are leaders, pastors, worship leaders, small group leaders, ministry directors, anyone who has influence over other people’s spiritual lives.

Because what he showed me about leadership in the church right now, it’s sobering and it’s something that needs to be addressed before Sunday.

In the vision, after I watched the rapture happen and saw those churches with most of their people still sitting in the pews, Jesus took me to the pastors, the leaders who were left behind, and I watched their faces as the reality set in.

These were men and women who’d dedicated their lives to ministry, who’d gone to seminary, who’d preached thousands of sermons, who’d counseledled countless people, who’d built churches and ministries and programs.

And they were devastated, not just because they’d been left behind, but because they realized they’d led other people astray.

They’d preached a watered down gospel that made people feel comfortable, but didn’t make them holy.

They’d focused on growing their attendance numbers instead of growing disciples. They’d told people what they wanted to hear instead of what they needed to hear.

They’d built their ministry on their own charisma and their own vision instead of on complete obedience to Jesus.

And Jesus looked at them with such grief. And he said something that made me weep.

He said, “You were supposed to be shepherds of my flock, but you became entertainers.

You were supposed to lead people to me, but you led them to yourself. You were supposed to prepare my bride, but you made her worldly and comfortable and unprepared for what was coming.

And now their blood is on your hands. Ezekiel 34 talks about the shepherds of Israel who fed themselves instead of the flock, who didn’t strengthen the weak or heal the sick or bind up the injured or bring back the stray.

And God says, “Behold, I am against the shepherds. And I will require my sheep at their hand and put a stop to their feeding the sheep.”

And I’m telling you, there are pastors and leaders right now who are in serious danger.

Not because they’re intentionally trying to deceive people. Not because they’re malicious, but because they’ve become more concerned with building their platform than building the kingdom.

More concerned with keeping people happy than keeping people holy. More concerned with being relevant than being righteous.

And Jesus is giving them this weekend to examine themselves. To look in the mirror and ask the hard questions.

Am I truly called by God or did I choose this career? Am I speaking his words or my own?

Am I leading people to him or to me? Am I preparing the bride or entertaining the crowd?

Am I willing to preach the hard truths even if it costs me attendance and offerings?

Or am I compromising to keep people comfortable? Because here’s what’s about to happen. Jesus showed me that in this new season we’re entering after Sunday, the leaders who’ve been compromising, who’ve been people pleasing, who’ve been building their own kingdom instead of his, they’re going to be exposed.

Their ministries are going to start crumbling. Their influence is going to wne. The anointing they thought they had is going to lift.

And it’s going to become obvious who was really sent by God and who was operating in their own strength and their own ambition.

But the leaders who’ve remained faithful, who’ve preached the whole council of God even when it was unpopular, who’ve prioritized holiness over growth, who’ve led by example instead of just by words, they’re going to see a supernatural increase in their effectiveness.

People are going to be drawn to them because they’re starving for truth. They’re going to experience the kind of ministry that Acts describes where signs and wonders follow the preaching of the word and people are genuinely transformed, not just momentarily inspired.

So, if you’re a leader watching this, I need you to get before God this weekend and let him search your heart.

Ask him to show you if there are areas where you’ve compromised. Ask him to reveal if there are messages you’ve avoided preaching because you were afraid of how people would respond.

Ask him if you’ve been building his kingdom or yours. And if he shows you areas where you’ve fallen short, repent.

Make it right. Change course while there’s still time. Because the sheep are depending on you.

The people under your care are looking to you to lead them in the right direction.

And if you lead them toward comfort and compromise instead of toward Jesus and holiness, you’re going to answer for that.

James 3:1 says, “Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness.”

Greater strictness. That should terrify anyone in leadership because the standard is higher. The accountability is more severe.

The consequences of getting it wrong are more serious. Not just for you, but for everyone you influence.

Now, let me shift gears because there’s another group Jesus specifically addressed in the vision.

And this is for those of you who are young, teenagers, 20s, maybe early 30s, the generation that’s grown up in a world that’s radically different from anything previous generations experienced.

And Jesus has a specific word for you. He showed me that your generation is facing a level of deception and spiritual warfare that’s unprecedented.

You’re growing up in a culture that celebrates everything God calls sin. You’re being told that truth is relative, that you can define your own reality, that there are no absolutes, that tolerance is the highest virtue.

You’re being bombarded with content and images and messages 24/7s through your devices. You’re dealing with anxiety and depression and identity confusion at rates that are off the charts.

And the enemy has specifically targeted your generation because he knows you’re the last generation before Jesus returns.

He knows that if he can neutralize you, if he can deceive you, if he can make you spiritually ineffective, then he’s won a major victory.

But here’s what Jesus showed me. He said, “There’s a remnant in this generation that I’m raising up.

Young people who are tired of the fake, shallow, entertainment-driven Christianity they’ve seen in the church.

Young people who are hungry for the real thing. Young people who are willing to be radical, to be different, to pay the cost of true disciplehip.”

And he showed me that this remnant is going to lead the final harvest. They’re going to do exploits for the kingdom that will make the book of Acts look tame.

They’re going to move in power and authority and boldness that will shake the world.

But they have to be willing to separate themselves from the culture, from the compromise, from the counterfeit Christianity that’s all around them.

So, if you’re a young person watching this, I want you to know that you have a choice to make.

You can blend in with your generation, go along with the flow, adopt the values and the mindset and the lifestyle that everyone around you is celebrating.

Or you can be set apart. You can be holy. You can be chosen. And I’m not going to lie to you.

If you choose the second path, it’s going to cost you. You’re going to lose friends.

You’re going to be mocked. You’re going to be called judgmental and intolerant and all kinds of other names.

You’re going to miss out on experiences and opportunities that everyone else is pursuing. You’re going to feel lonely sometimes, misunderstood, like you don’t fit anywhere, but you’re going to have something that none of those other people have.

You’re going to have peace, purpose, power, intimacy with Jesus, and you’re going to be part of something so much bigger than yourself.

You’re going to be part of the final movement of God before Jesus returns. You’re going to be part of the bride that’s ready when he comes.

And let me tell you something else. The loneliness is temporary. Because as you step out and make the choice to be set apart, you’re going to find other young people who’ve made the same choice.

You’re going to find your tribe, your community, the other chosen ones in your generation.

And those friendships, those relationships, they’re going to be deeper and more meaningful than anything you left behind.

Romans 12:2 says,”Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Don’t be conformed. Don’t let the world squeeze you into its mold. Be transformed. Be different.

Be set apart.” Now, here’s something else Jesus showed me that I think is going to be really important for people to understand.

He showed me that in this season we’re entering, there’s going to be a lot of false prophets and false teachers rising up with messages that sound biblical, that seem spiritual, but are actually leading people astray.

And these aren’t going to be obvious wolves. These are going to be people with large followings, impressive credentials, charismatic personalities, and they’re going to be preaching things that make people feel good, that don’t require anything hard, that don’t call for repentance or surrender or sacrifice.

And Jesus said to me, “Warn them. Tell them to test everything. Tell them that just because someone has a big platform or talks about me or quotes scripture doesn’t mean they’re speaking for me.

Tell them to know my word so well that they can recognize when someone’s twisting it.

Tell them to know my voice so clearly that they can identify a counterfeit.” Matthew 24- 24 says, “For false Christs and false prophets will arise and perform great signs and wonders so as to lead astray if possible.”

Even the elect. Even the elect. That means the deception is going to be sophisticated enough to fool people who genuinely love Jesus if they’re not careful, if they’re not discerning, if they’re not grounded in the word.

So, how do you protect yourself? How do you avoid being deceived? First, you have to be in the word daily.

Not just reading it casually, but studying it, meditating on it, memorizing it, letting it transform your thinking.

Second, you have to cultivate intimacy with Jesus so you can recognize his voice and distinguish it from other voices.

Third, you have to be part of a healthy biblically sound community where there’s accountability and correction and mutual encouragement.

And fourth, you have to maintain a humble, teachable spirit that’s always willing to be corrected if you’re wrong.

Pride is what makes people susceptible to deception. Because when you think you’ve got it all figured out, when you think you’re beyond being fooled, that’s when you’re most vulnerable.

But humility keeps you safe. Humility keeps you dependent on God. Humility keeps you willing to test and verify instead of just accepting whatever sounds good.

You know what’s interesting? Jesus showed me that one of the major deceptions that’s going to increase in this next season is the idea that God’s grace means he’s okay with ongoing unrepentant sin.

That you can live however you want and still be saved because grace covers everything.

And listen, grace is amazing. Grace is essential. Without grace, none of us would have any hope.

But grace isn’t a license to sin. It’s power to overcome sin. Titus 2:12 says, “For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age, training us to renounce, not giving us permission to continue, training us to renounce.”

So, when you hear a teacher saying that holiness doesn’t matter, that your behavior doesn’t affect your salvation, that God doesn’t care about your lifestyle choices as long as you believe, that’s a red flag.

That’s a false gospel because the real gospel transforms you. It changes you from the inside out.

It gives you new desires, new priorities, new power to live differently. And this isn’t about perfectionism.

This isn’t about never making mistakes. This is about the direction of your life. Are you moving toward holiness or away from it?

Are you growing in Christlikkeness or staying stagnant? Are you fighting sin or embracing it?

There’s a difference between a believer who struggles with sin and confesses it and keeps getting back up and someone who’s given themselves permission to continue in sin without any conviction or any intention to change.

The chosen are the ones who are pressing forward, who are fighting the good fight, who are running the race to win.

They stumble sometimes. Sure, they fall sometimes, but they don’t stay down. They don’t make peace with sin.

They keep pursuing holiness because they understand that Hebrews 12:14 says, “Strive for peace with everyone and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord, without which no one will see the Lord.”

That’s a sobering statement. It’s not saying you have to be perfect to see God.

But it is saying that there has to be a genuine pursuit of holiness, a genuine transformation taking place, a genuine separation from the world and conformity to Christ.

You know what I keep thinking about as I’m sitting here recording this? I keep thinking about Noah.

And I know that’s probably a strange connection to make, but stay with me because this is something Jesus specifically highlighted in the vision.

He showed me Noah building the ark day after day, year after year, faithfully doing what God told him to do, even though it made no sense to anyone around him.

There had never been a flood. Rain like that had never happened. And yet there he was, this man building this massive boat in the middle of dry land, warning everyone who would listen that judgment was coming, that they needed to get in the ark, that time was running out.

And people mocked him. They thought he was crazy. They thought he was extreme. They thought he was one of those religious fanatics who sees doom and gloom everywhere.

And they went on with their lives, eating, drinking, marrying, building, planning for the future, right up until the day Noah entered the ark and God shut the door.

And then the rain started. And those same people who’d been mocking him, who’d been ignoring his warnings, who’d been too busy with their own lives to pay attention, they were pounding on the door of the ark, begging to be let in.

But it was too late. The door was shut. The opportunity had passed. Jesus showed me this and said, “As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.

People will be eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage right up until the day judgment comes.

And they’ll be caught completely offguard because they refuse to listen to the warnings.” And that’s what’s happening right now.

We’re in the days of Noah. People are going about their normal lives, pursuing their careers, planning their retirements, focused on their comfort and their entertainment and their relationships.

And there are voices crying out, warning that time is short, that judgment is coming, that they need to get right with God.

But most people aren’t listening. They’re too distracted, too comfortable, too convinced that things will just continue on as they always have.

But the door is about to shut. And when it does, the people who didn’t prepare, who didn’t take the warnings seriously, who didn’t make the necessary changes, they’re going to realize too late what they missed.

So here’s my question for you. Are you going to be like Noah, or are you going to be like the people outside the ark?

Are you going to be someone who takes God at his word and acts on it even when it seems extreme?

Or are you going to be someone who dismisses the warnings and keeps living for yourself?

Because being chosen means being like Noah. It means being willing to look foolish in the eyes of the world.

It means being willing to do what God says even when nobody else is doing it.

It means being willing to separate yourself from the crowd and align yourself with God’s purposes even when you’re misunderstood and mocked.

And listen, I’m not saying you need to build a literal ark, but I am saying you need to prepare spiritually prepare.

You need to make sure your relationship with Jesus is real, that your faith is genuine, that your life is aligned with his word.

Because what’s coming is going to separate those who truly know him from those who just know about him.

And there won’t be time to prepare once it starts. Jesus showed me something else in the vision that really shook me.

He showed me that one of the reasons so many Christians aren’t ready, aren’t chosen, is because they’ve believed a lie about what salvation actually is.

They think salvation is just a one-time prayer they prayed, a decision they made, fire insurance they purchased to keep them out of hell.

And once they did that, they figured they were set. They could go back to living however they wanted because their eternal destination was secured.

But that’s not what the Bible teaches. James 21:17 says, “Faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.”

And verse 19 says, “You believe that God is one, you do well. Even the demons believe and shudder.

Believing isn’t enough. Even demons believe. What saves you is a genuine relationship with Jesus that transforms your life, that produces fruit that results in obedience.

And before anyone accuses me of preaching works-based salvation, let me be clear. We’re saved by grace through faith, not by works.

Ephesians 2:8-9 makes that crystal clear. But verse 10 says, “For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.

Works don’t save you, but they’re the evidence that you’re saved. They’re the fruit that proves the tree is alive.

So, if someone’s life looks exactly the same after they got saved as it did before, if there’s no transformation, no fruit, no evidence of the Holy Spirit working in them, then there’s a real question about whether they actually have a genuine relationship with Jesus.

Because genuine salvation changes you. It has to. It’s not an accessory you add to your life.

It’s a complete renovation of who you are. And I think this is one of the biggest deceptions in the modern church.

We’ve made salvation so easy, so simple, so consequence-free that people think they can pray a prayer and nothing else has to change.

But Jesus said, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.”

Luke 9:23, “Deny himself, take up his cross, follow me.” That’s not easy. That’s not simple.

That’s not consequence-free. The chosen understand this. They understand that following Jesus costs everything and they’ve decided he’s worth it.

But the called, the ones who just want the benefits without the commitment, they’re going to find out too late that their version of Christianity wasn’t real.

Now, I want to talk about something that I think is going to be really practical for people who are genuinely trying to move from called to chosen because it’s one thing to understand the concept, but it’s another thing to know what to actually do.

So, let me give you some very specific practical steps you can take starting this weekend.

First, you need to establish a daily time with God that’s non-negotiable. Not when you happen to have time.

Not if you wake up early enough, not if you’re in the mood. Non-negotiable. Like brushing your teeth or eating meals.

It’s just something you do every single day, no matter what. And during this time, you’re reading the word, you’re praying, you’re worshiping, you’re listening, you’re cultivating that relationship with Jesus.

That’s the foundation of everything else. And I know some of you are thinking, “I’m so busy.

I don’t have time for that.” Let me ask you something. How much time do you spend on your phone scrolling social media?

How much time do you spend watching TV or Netflix or YouTube? How much time do you spend on hobbies or entertainment?

You have time. You just haven’t made it a priority. And if you’re too busy for God, then you’re too busy.

Something needs to change. Second, you need to do a relationship audit. Get a piece of paper and write down the names of the people you spend the most time with.

Then honestly evaluate each relationship. Is this person drawing me closer to Jesus or pulling me away?

Is this person encouraging my faith or undermining it? Is this person speaking life or death?

And then you need to make some hard decisions. Maybe some relationships need to end completely.

Maybe some need boundaries. Maybe some need to have honest conversations where you explain that you’re making some changes and you need them to respect that.

And yes, this is going to be uncomfortable. Yes, some people are going to be offended.

Yes, you might lose some friends. But remember what Jesus said, “Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me.

If you’re not willing to lose relationships for Jesus, then you’re not willing to be chosen.”

Third, you need to identify your secret sins and deal with them radically. Not gradually, not eventually, radically.

If it’s pornography, you need to get accountability software on all your devices and give someone the passwords.

If it’s substance abuse, you need to get rid of the substances and get into a recovery program.

If it’s an inappropriate relationship, you need to end it today. If it’s financial dishonesty, you need to make it right, even if it costs you.

If it’s unforgiveness, you need to forgive even if the person doesn’t deserve it. Whatever it is, you need to take radical action.

Cut it off. Throw it away. Confess it. Get help. Stop making excuses and stop delaying and just do it.

Because as long as you’re harboring secret sin, you’re not fully surrendered. And if you’re not fully surrendered, you’re not chosen.

Fourth, you need to start practicing immediate obedience. When you feel that prompting from the Holy Spirit to do something or say something or give something, you do it right then.

Don’t wait. Don’t analyze. Don’t talk yourself out of it. Just obey. And the more you practice this, the clearer his voice becomes and the easier it gets to follow his leading.

Maybe he’s prompting you to reach out to someone you haven’t talked to in years.

Do it today. Maybe he’s prompting you to give money to someone in need. Do it today.

Maybe he’s prompting you to confess something to your spouse or your pastor. Do it today.

Maybe he’s prompting you to quit a job or end a contract or change a situation.

Do it today. Don’t wait for perfect timing or perfect conditions. Obey now. Fifth, you need to get serious about holiness.

And I mean practical daily holiness. What are you watching? What are you listening to?

What are you reading? What are you thinking about? What are you talking about? Does it honor God?

Does it align with his word? Does it contribute to your spiritual growth? If not, cut it out.

Replace it with things that do. And this is going to require some lifestyle changes.

Maybe you need to cancel some streaming subscriptions because you keep getting pulled into shows that glorify sin.

Maybe you need to delete some social media apps because they’re a source of temptation or comparison or waste your time.

Maybe you need to change your friend group because the conversations always drift into gossip or crude humor.

Maybe you need to change your entertainment habits because what you’re feeding your mind is affecting your spiritual life.

Philippians 4:8 says, “Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.

That’s your filter. Run everything through that grid. And if it doesn’t pass, eliminate it.

Sixth, you need to get connected to a healthy church community if you’re not already.

And I don’t just mean attending on Sundays. I mean really connected small group serving relationships where people know your name and your struggles and your story because you can’t do this alone.

You need other believers to encourage you, to challenge you, to pray for you, to keep you accountable.

And if you’re in a church that’s not preaching the whole council of God, that’s compromising truth to be culturally acceptable, that’s focused more on entertainment, then on disciplehip, you might need to find a different church.

I know that’s a hard thing to say, but it’s true. Your spiritual life is too important to stay somewhere that’s not feeding you properly.

Seventh, you need to start living with an eternal perspective. Stop making decisions based on what’s comfortable or convenient or financially advantageous in this life.

Start making decisions based on what’s going to matter in eternity. Because this life is short.

James 4:14 says it’s a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.

But eternity is forever. And what you do with Jesus in this brief moment determines where you spend forever.

So when you’re faced with a choice between comfort and obedience, choose obedience. When you’re faced with a choice between financial gain and integrity, choose integrity.

When you’re faced with a choice between acceptance and truth, choose truth. Because the approval of man is temporary, but the approval of God is eternal.

Now, let me tell tell you what’s going to happen when you start implementing these things.

You’re going to face resistance, guaranteed. The enemy is going to push back. Your flesh is going to rebel.

Circumstances are going to get difficult. And um you’re going to be tempted to quit, to go back to how things were, to convince yourself that this whole chosen thing is too hard.

And maybe God doesn’t really expect this much. But that’s exactly when you need to push through.

That’s exactly when you need to stand firm because the resistance is proof that you’re on the right track.

The enemy doesn’t bother attacking people who aren’t a threat to him. He attacks the ones who are actually moving toward God’s purposes for their lives.

1 Peter 5:8-9 says, “Be sober minded. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.

Resist him firm in your faith. Resist him. Don’t give in. Don’t give up. Don’t surrender ground.

Stand firm. And know that every time you choose obedience over compromise, you’re growing stronger.

You’re developing spiritual muscle. You’re becoming more and more the person God created you to be.

I just looked at the clock and it’s nearly 5:00 a.m. Now. The sun’s going to be coming up soon and I’m exhausted, but I can’t stop.

There’s this fire in my chest that won’t let me quit until I’ve said everything Jesus told me to say.

And I know some of you have been watching for a while now, and you might be feeling overwhelmed.

Maybe you’re thinking, “This is too much. I can’t do all of this. I’m going to fail.”

And listen, I need to address that right now because that’s exactly the kind of thinking that keeps people from moving forward.

That’s the enemy whispering in your ear trying to discourage you before you even start.

So, let me tell you something that Jesus made very clear in the vision. He said, “I’m not looking for perfect people.

I’m looking for surrendered people. I’m not looking for people who never mess up. I’m looking for people who get back up when they do.

I’m not looking for people who have it all together. I’m looking for people who know they need me desperately and who are willing to keep pursuing me even when it’s hard.

The chosen aren’t people who never struggle. They’re people who keep fighting. They’re not people who never fall.

They’re people who keep getting back up. They’re not people who have achieved some level of spiritual superiority.

They’re people who remain humble and dependent on God’s grace every single day. So if you’re feeling inadequate right now, good.

That’s actually the right posture because 2 Corinthians 12:9 says, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.

Your weakness is where his strength shows up. Your inability is where his ability takes over.

Your inadequacy is where his adequacy shines through. The problem isn’t that you’re weak. The problem is when you try to be strong in your own strength instead of leaning on his.

The the problem is when you give up instead of crying out for help. The problem is when you use your weakness as an excuse instead of an opportunity to experience his power.

So don’t let the enemy convince you that you can’t do this. With God, you can do all things.

Philippians 4:13. But you have to stay connected to him. You have to stay surrendered.

You have to keep drawing on his strength instead of trying to manufacture your own.

Now, there’s something else Jesus showed me in the vision that I think is going to be really important for people to understand.

He showed me that there are stages to this journey from called to chosen. It’s not like you flip a switch and suddenly you’re there.

It’s a process, a progression. And understanding the stages can help you recognize where you are and what you need to do next.

The first stage is awakening. This is where you realize that your current version of Christianity isn’t enough.

You recognize that you’ve been coasting, that you’ve been playing games, that you need something more real, more deep, more transformative.

And for many of you, this video is that awakening moment. This is the alarm going off in your spirit, telling you it’s time to wake up.

And this stage can be uncomfortable because you’re becoming aware of things you’ve been able to ignore before.

You’re seeing your own sin more clearly. You’re recognizing areas of compromise. You’re feeling convicted about things that used to seem fine.

And some people when they hit this stage, they try to go back to sleep.

They try to shut off the alarm because awareness is painful. But if you push through, if you let the awakening do its work, you move to the next stage.

The second stage is repentance. This is where you don’t just feel bad about your sin.

You actually turn away from it. You make concrete changes. You deal with the things that have been holding you back.

You confess. You get help. You burn the bridges to your old life. And this stage requires courage because you’re dismantling things that have been part of your identity, part of your comfort, part of your routine.

But it’s necessary. You can’t move forward while you’re still clinging to the things that need to be left behind.

The third stage is surrender. This is where you stop trying to negotiate with God and you just give him everything.

You lay it all on the altar. Your plans, your relationships, your resources, your future, everything.

And you say, “Not my will, but yours. Do whatever you want with my life.

I’m yours completely.” And this stage is both terrifying and liberating because you’re releasing control, but you’re also releasing the burden of trying to manage everything yourself.

The fourth stage is transformation. This is where the Holy Spirit starts doing deep work in you.

Changing your desires, renewing your mind, healing your wounds, breaking your chains, developing your character.

And this stage takes time. It’s not instant. It’s a process of becoming more and more like Jesus.

And you’ll have moments of breakthrough and moments of struggle. But as long as you stay surrendered, as long as you keep pursuing him, the transformation continues.

The fifth stage is testing. This is where God allows circumstances and challenges to prove what you’re made of, to reveal whether your faith is genuine, to develop perseverance and maturity.

And listen, this stage is hard. It’s where a lot of people wash out because when the pressure comes, when it costs you something, when it’s not fun anymore, you find out whether you’re really committed or whether you were just emotionally moved for a moment.

But if you pass the tests, if you remain faithful, you move to the sixth stage, which is commissioning.

This is where God begins to use you to give you assignments to send you out with his authority and his power to make you part of his purposes in the earth.

And this is where you discover your calling, your destiny, the reason you were created.

Not to make much of yourself, but to make much of him. Not to build your own kingdom, but to advance his.

And the final stage is readiness. This is where you’re fully prepared for whatever comes next, including the return of Jesus.

You’re watching. You’re faithful. You’re about your father’s business. You’re living with an eternal perspective.

And when he comes, you’re ready. You’re part of the bride that’s prepared. You’re among the chosen.

Now, most Christians never make it past the first or second stage. They wake up.

They feel convicted. Maybe they make some surface changes, but they never fully surrender. They never stick with the transformation process.

They avoid the testing or quit when it gets hard. And so they remain called but not chosen, invited but not selected, awakened but not transformed.

But you don’t have to be in that category. You can move through all these stages.

You can complete the journey but it requires a decision. And that decision needs to be made now this weekend before Sunday comes and this season of mercy closes.

So here’s what I want you to do. I want you to identify which stage you’re in right now.

Be honest. Are you just waking up? Are you in the process of repenting? Have you surrendered?

Are you being transformed? Are you being tested? Are you walking in your calling? Are you ready?

And then I want you to ask God what the next step is for you.

What does he want you to do to move forward? What’s the next level of obedience?

What’s the next area that needs to be surrendered? What’s the next test you need to pass?

Don’t try to jump to the end. Just focus on the next step and then take it.

Because the journey from called to chosen is taken one step at a time, one decision at a time, one act of obedience at a time.

You don’t have to figure out the whole path. You just have to take the next step that’s in front of you.

Now, Jesus showed me something else in the vision that I need to share. He showed me that there are specific promises for the chosen ones, specific protections, specific provisions, things that won’t be available to everyone but will be given to those who’ve truly surrendered.

He took me to Psalm 91 and he said, “Read this. Really read it because this is my promise to those who dwell in my secret place, who abide in my shadow, who’ve made me their refuge and their fortress.”

And I started reading, “He who dwells in the secret place of the most high shall abide under the shadow of the almighty.

I will say of the Lord, he is my refuge and my fortress, my God.

In him I will trust. Surely he shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the perilous pestilence.

He shall cover you with his feathers and under his wings you shall take refuge.

His truth shall be your shield and buckler.” And it goes on. Protection from terror, from arrows, from pestilence, from destruction.

Angels given charge over you. Deliverance when you call. Satisfaction with long life. And it’s all conditional on that first who verse.

He who dwells in the secret place of the most high. Dwelling isn’t visiting. It’s not dropping by occasionally.

It’s living there. Making it your home. Abiding constantly. And that’s what the chosen do.

They dwell in God’s presence. They abide in Christ. They make him their constant reality, not just their Sunday religion.

And for those who do, there are promises, supernatural protection, provision, guidance, everything you need to navigate what’s coming.

But you have to be in that place of intimacy. You have to be abiding.

You have to be chosen. Jesus also showed me Revelation 3:10. He said to the church in Philadelphia, “Because you have kept my command to persevere, I also will keep you from the hour of trial, which shall come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.

Keep you from the hour of trial.” That’s a promise for those who’ve persevered, who’ve kept his word, who’ve remained faithful.

And I believe this is referring to the tribulation period, the time of unprecedented trouble that’s coming upon the earth.

And the chosen, the ones who’ve been faithful, they’re going to be kept from that.

Whether through rapture or through supernatural protection, I don’t know all the details, but the promise is clear.

Faithfulness results in protection. But then he showed me the very next verse, verse 11.

Behold, I am coming quickly. Hold fast what you have that no one may take your crown.

Hold fast. Don’t let go. Don’t give up. Don’t slack off because someone can take your crown.

You can lose your reward. You can be called but not chosen if you don’t hold fast until the end.

And this is so important for people to understand. Salvation isn’t just about where you start.

It’s about where you finish. It’s not just about making a decision for Jesus at some point in your past.

It’s about following him faithfully all the way to the end, enduring, persevering, holding fast.

Matthew 24-13 says, “But he who endures to the end shall be saved.” Endures to the end, not starts strong, not has a moment of passion, endures to the end.

And that’s what the chosen do. They don’t just begin the race, they finish it.

They don’t just have a conversion experience. They live a converted life. They don’t just make a commitment.

They keep the commitment day after day, year after year, no matter what. And listen, I know that can sound exhausting.

Like it’s this grinding joyless endurance test, but that’s not what it is at all.

When you’re truly in love with Jesus, when you’re truly experiencing his presence, when you’re truly walking in your calling, it’s not a burden.

It’s a joy. Yes, there are hard days. Yes, there are costs. Yes, there are sacrifices.

But the reward is so much greater than the cost. Paul said in Philippians 3:7 to8, “But what things were gained to me, these I have counted loss for Christ.

Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord for whom I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish that I may gain Christ.

Rubbish garbage. That’s how he viewed everything he gave up compared to knowing Jesus. And that’s the perspective of the chosen.

They’ve tasted and seen that the Lord is good and everything else has lost its flavor in comparison.

You know, as I’m sitting here, I’m thinking about the weight of what I’m sharing, and I’m thinking about the fact that some of you watching this are going to make the decision to fully surrender this weekend.

You’re going to take this seriously. You’re going to examine your life, make the necessary changes, and move from called to chosen, and your eternity is going to be different because of it.

But I’m also thinking about the ones who aren’t going to listen. The ones who are going to dismiss this as too extreme or too dramatic or too uncomfortable.

And that breaks my heart because Jesus showed me what happens to them and I don’t want that for anyone.

In the vision after showing me the rapture and the people who were left behind, he showed me what their existence became during the tribulation.

And I’m not going to go into graphic detail, but I need you to understand that what’s described in the book of Revelation isn’t symbolic.

It’s literal. The judgments that are coming upon the earth, they’re real and they’re worse than anything humanity has ever experienced.

And the people who are left behind, even believers who thought they were saved but weren’t really surrendered, they’re going to have another chance.

Revelation makes that clear. People will come to faith during the tribulation, but the cost will be immeasurably higher.

Most of them will be martyed. They’ll have to choose between taking the mark of the beast and being able to buy food or refusing it and facing execution.

And their faith will be tested in ways that are absolutely brutal. And Jesus looked at me with such grief and he said,”Wh do they choose the hard path?

Why do they wait until the door is shut and the easy season is over?

Why won’t they surrender now when the cost is so much less?” And I didn’t have an answer because it doesn’t make sense.

It’s like someone standing outside in a storm getting drenched and cold when there’s a warm house with the door wide open right behind them.

Why wouldn’t you just go inside? Why would you choose to suffer unnecessarily? But people do it every day.

They choose comfort over obedience. They choose temporary pleasure over eternal reward. They choose the approval of people over the approval of God.

And they convince themselves that somehow it’s going to work out, that they’ll deal with it later, that it’s not really that serious.

But it is that serious and later might be too late and the door that’s open now won’t stay open forever.

So, please, if you’re hearing this and you’re feeling that conviction, that urgency, that pull towards surrender, don’t ignore it.

Don’t put it off. Don’t tell yourself you’ll do it next week or next month or next year.

Do it now, this weekend, before Sunday comes and this season shifts. Now, let me tell you about something else Jesus showed me.

He showed me that there are people watching this video right now who’ve been crying out to God for direction.

You’ve been asking him what he wants from you. You’ve been seeking his will for your life.

You’ve been desperate to know your purpose, your calling, your assignment. And he said to me, “Tell them that this message is my answer.

Tell them that what I want from them is complete surrender. Tell them that they can’t know their calling until they first answer my call to holiness.

Tell them that purpose comes after surrender, not before.” See, so many Christians are trying to figure out what God wants them to do while they’re still living in compromise.

They want him to reveal their destiny while they’re still holding back areas of their life.

But it doesn’t work that way. You can’t get the assignment until you first pass the test of surrender.

Abraham didn’t get the promise until he was willing to sacrifice Isaac. Moses didn’t get the burning bush until he turned aside to look.

David didn’t get the throne until he proved faithful as a shepherd. Daniel didn’t get the prophetic visions until he first chose to honor God with his diet and his prayer life.

Joseph didn’t get the promotion until he remained faithful in the pit and the prison.

Pattern after pattern in scripture shows us that God reveals the next step only after we’ve been obedient with the current step.

He shows us our calling only after we’ve proven faithful in our surrender. He gives us the assignment only after we’ve passed the character test.

So, if you’ve been waiting for God to show you what he wants you to do, stop waiting and start surrendering.

Stop asking for the next step and start obeying the last thing he told you.

Stop looking for the big assignment and start being faithful in the small things right in front of you.

Because Jesus said in Luke 16:10, “He who is faithful in what is least is faithful also in much.

And he who is unjust in what is least is unjust also in much.” God’s not going to give you much if you’re not faithful with little.

He’s not going to reveal the big assignment if you’re not obedient in the small things.

And here’s what happens when you get this right. When you stop trying to figure out your calling and you just focus on surrendering and obeying, something amazing happens.

Your calling finds you. Doors open that you didn’t even know existed. Opportunities present themselves.

God connects you with people and resources and assignments that perfectly fit who he created you to be.

But it all flows from surrender, not from striving. Now, Jesus also showed me that there are people watching this who’ve been hurt by the church.

You’ve been wounded by leaders who were hypocritical. You’ve been let down by Christians who didn’t live what they preached.

You’ve been damaged by religious systems that were more about control than about genuine relationship with God.

And because of that, you’ve pulled back. You’ve built walls. You’ve become cynical or skeptical or distant.

And Jesus wants you to know that he sees your hurt. He understands your pain.

And he’s not asking you to go back to whatever wounded you. But he is asking you not to let the failure of people keep you from the faithfulness of God.

Don’t let the hypocrisy of some Christians rob you of a genuine relationship with Christ.

Don’t let bad experiences with church keep you from the body of Christ. Because here’s the truth.

The church is full of broken people, imperfect people, people who fail and fall short and sometimes do more harm than good.

But Jesus isn’t like that. He’s perfect. He’s faithful. He never fails. And you can’t judge him based on the actions of people who claim to represent him but don’t actually follow him.

And listen, if you’ve been hurt by the church, part of your healing is going to involve forgiveness.

I know that’s hard. I know it feels unfair. I know the people who hurt you might not deserve your forgiveness.

But forgiveness isn’t about them. It’s about you. It’s about releasing the bitterness and the resentment and the anger that’s keeping you in bondage.

It’s about letting God heal those wounds instead of letting them define you. Matthew 6:14:15 says, “For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

But if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.”

That’s sobering. Your forgiveness from God is connected to your willingness to forgive others. And if you’re holding on to unforgiveness, even justified unforgiveness, it’s going to affect your relationship with God.

It’s going to hinder your prayers. It’s going to keep you from being fully chosen.

So, I want to speak directly to those of you who are carrying hurt from the church or from Christians.

I want you to make a decision this weekend to forgive. Not because they deserve it, but because you need to be free.

Write down the names of the people who hurt you. And one by one, say out loud, “I forgive you.

I release you. I let go of the debt you owe me. And I ask God to heal this wound.”

And it might not feel real at first. You might not feel the forgiveness. But as you make that choice, as you speak those words, something happens in the spiritual realm.

The chains start breaking, the bitterness starts dissolving, and healing begins. Now, let me shift to something practical that I think is going to help a lot of people.

Jesus showed me that one of the biggest hindrances to people becoming chosen is the pace of their life.

They’re so busy, so distracted, so overscheduled, so overwhelmed that they don’t have margin for God.

They don’t have space to hear his voice, to feel his prompting, to respond to his leading.

They’re running from one thing to the next, checking off their to-do lists, managing their responsibilities, keeping all their plates spinning, and they tell themselves they’re doing it all for good reasons.

They’re providing for their family. They’re fulfilling their obligations. They’re being responsible. They’re maximizing their potential.

But in the process, they’ve crowded God out. Not intentionally, not maliciously, but effectively. Because if your calendar is so full that you don’t have time to pray, to read the word, to sit in his presence, to obey his prompings, then your calendar is too full.

Period. And I know that’s a hard word for some of you cuz you look at your schedule and everything on it seems necessary.

Everything seems important. You don’t know what you could possibly cut out. But here’s the question you need to ask.

Is this schedule, this pace, this lifestyle producing the kind of spiritual fruit that God requires?

Is it making you more like Jesus? Is it deepening your relationship with him? Is it preparing you to be chosen?

If the answer is no, then something needs to change. And I’m not saying you need to quit your job or abandon your responsibilities, but I am saying you need to ruthlessly evaluate how you’re spending your time and make some hard choices about what stays and what goes.

Maybe you need to cut back on work hours. Maybe you need to say no to some commitments.

Maybe you need to eliminate some activities that are good but not essential. Maybe you need to set boundaries around your time that protect your relationship with God.

Because here’s what Jesus said in Luke 10 when he was at Mary and Martha’s house.

Martha was busy serving, doing all the things that needed to be done. And Mary was sitting at Jesus’s feet listening to him.

And Martha got frustrated and asked Jesus to tell Mary to help her. And you know what Jesus said?

Martha, Martha, you are worried and troubled about many things. But one thing is needed.

And Mary has chosen that good part which will not be taken away from her.

One thing is needed. And it’s not busyness. It’s not productivity. It’s not checking boxes.

It’s sitting at the feet of Jesus. It’s prioritizing that relationship above everything else. And Mary chose it.

She made a conscious decision that listening to Jesus was more important than doing the tasks.

And the chosen are the ones making that same choice today. They’re the ones who’ve decided that knowing Jesus is more important than anything else on their schedule.

They’re the ones who’ve created margin for God, even if it means disappointing people or leaving things undone or earning less money or having a less impressive resume.

So, I want to challenge you this weekend. Look at your calendar for the coming week and I want you to schedule time with God first.

Not squeeze it in if you have time. Schedule it. Block it out. Treat it like the most important appointment of your day because it is.

And then protect that time like you would protect a meeting with the most important person in your life because that’s exactly what it is.

Don’t let anything bump it. Don’t let anyone intrude on it. Don’t convince yourself that you’ll do it later.

Keep that appointment with God and watch what happens. Watch how that one choice begins to shift everything else.

Watch how priorities start to reorder themselves. Watch how clarity comes. Watch how peace settles.

Watch how his voice becomes clearer and his presence becomes more real. And your relationship with him deepens.

Because the chosen aren’t people who have more time than everyone else. They’re people who’ve made God the priority of their time.

They’ve decided that everything else bows to that relationship. And that decision, that prioritization, it changes everything.

It’s after 5:30 now and the sky is starting to lighten outside my window. I can hear birds beginning to sing.

And there’s something symbolic about that, about recording this message as we move from darkness into light.

Because that’s exactly what this message is about. Moving from spiritual darkness into light, from being called to being chosen, from religion to relationship, from death to life.

And I feel like we’re reaching a crucial point in what Jesus wants me to say.

There’s something else he showed me in the vision that I haven’t fully shared yet.

And this is the part that made me weep uncontrollably. This is the part that broke my heart and filled me with urgency and made me understand why this message had to go out before Sunday.

No matter what, Jesus showed me himself on the cross. And I’ve seen depictions of the crucifixion countless times.

I’ve studied it. I’ve portrayed moments of Jesus’s life and death in my work as an actor.

But this was different. This wasn’t a movie scene or a painting or a theological concept.

This was real. This was him in that moment experiencing the fullness of what he experienced for us.

And he showed me that every sin, every rebellion, every compromise, every secret shame, every betrayal, every act of disobedience from every person who would ever live, it was all piled on him in that moment.

The weight of it was crushing him. The separation from the father was tormenting him.

The physical pain was excruciating, but the emotional and spiritual agony was even worse. And as I watched, he turned and looked at me.

And he said, “I did this for you. I endured this for you. I paid the price for you.

Not so you could live a mediocre, comfortable, lukewarm Christian life. Not so you could play religious games and check spiritual boxes.

Not so you could be called, but not chosen. I did this so you could be mine completely fully eternally.

So you could be part of my bride. So you could reign with me. So you could experience the fullness of relationship with me that I created you for.

And then he said something that absolutely wrecked me. He said, “When people choose comfort over me, when they choose the world over me, when they’re content to be called but not chosen, they’re saying that what I did on the cross wasn’t valuable enough to surrender for.

They’re saying that what I offer isn’t worth what I’m asking them to give up.

And that breaks my heart more than the nails ever did. And I fell to my knees in the vision, weeping, because I realized how often I’ve done that.

How often I’ve treated his sacrifice as something I appreciate, but don’t let completely transform my life.

How often I’ve valued comfort or approval or convenience more than I’ve valued him. And I said, “Jesus, I’m so sorry.

I’m so sorry for all the times I’ve taken your sacrifice for granted. I’m so sorry for all the times I’ve chosen lesser things over you.

I’m so sorry for settling for being called when you’ve invited me to be chosen.

And you know what he did? He reached down and lifted my face. And he looked at me with such love, such compassion, such grace, and he said, “I forgive you.

And I’m giving you one more chance. I’m giving all of them one more chance.

This weekend, this message, this is the mercy moment. This is the opportunity to make it right.

To truly surrender, to move from called to chosen. And I need you to tell them with urgency, with passion, with everything in you.

Because I love them. I died for them. And I want them to be ready when I come.

And that’s why I’m sitting here at 5 30 inches the morning, exhausted, emotionally spent, but unable to stop until I’ve delivered this complete message.

Because Jesus loves you. He died for you and he wants you to be chosen.

Not because he’s trying to make your life hard. Not because he’s some cosmic killjoy who wants you to be miserable, but because he knows that the only way to truly live, to truly experience joy, to truly fulfill your purpose, to truly be ready for what’s coming is to be completely surrendered to him, to be chosen.

And there’s more. He showed me so much more things about what’s coming, things about how to prepare, things about the specific challenges the chosen will face and how to overcome them.

And I need to share all of it before this message is complete. After Jesus showed me his sacrifice and the weight of it, the vision shifted again.

And this time, he took me to a place I can only describe as a war room.

It looked like a strategic command center, but instead of maps and screens, there were I don’t even know how to describe it.

It was like I could see into the spiritual realm. I could see the battle that’s raging right now over souls, over churches, over nations, over families.

And Jesus said to me, “Most of my people don’t realize they’re in a war.

They think they’re just living their lives, dealing with everyday problems, managing normal challenges. But everything they’re facing, everything they’re struggling with, it’s part of a larger battle.

And the enemy has a strategy. He has a plan. And it’s working on most of them because they don’t even know they’re under attack.

And I watched as he showed me the enemy’s tactics. And I’m going to share these with you because Ephesians 6:12 says, “For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.

You can’t fight an enemy you don’t understand. You can’t defend against attacks you don’t recognize.”

The first tactic I saw was distraction. The enemy doesn’t need to make you deny Jesus.

He just needs to keep you too busy, too distracted, too occupied with a thousand little things to actually pursue him.

He fills your life with noise, social media, entertainment, news cycles, drama, busyiness. So you never have silence, never have space, never have margin to hear God’s voice.

And I watched people scrolling, clicking, consuming, always moving to the next thing. Never still, never quiet, never present.

And demonic forces were laughing because these people thought they were just relaxing, just unwinding, just staying informed.

But they were being systematically distracted from the one thing that mattered. Jesus said, “The chosen have learned to silence the noise.

They’ve learned to create space. They’ve learned to be still and know that I am God.

And in that stillness, in that quiet, they hear my voice. They receive my direction.

They experience my presence. And the enemy can’t touch them the same way.” The second tactic was deception through mixture.

The enemy knows he can’t get most Christians to abandon their faith completely. So instead, he mixes truth with lies.

He takes biblical concepts and twists them just enough that they sound right, but lead people astray.

He creates versions of Christianity that have enough truth to seem legitimate, but enough error to be spiritually impotent.

And I saw churches where the teaching was 90% truth and 10% error. And people were sitting there nodding along, thinking they were being fed, not realizing that the 10% error was poison that was slowly corrupting their understanding of God, of themselves, of salvation, of holiness.

And over time, that poison was neutralizing their faith, making them ineffective, keeping them called but never chosen.

Jesus said, “This is why I commanded them to test everything, to be like the Bereans, who searched the scriptures daily to see if what they were being taught was true.

But most don’t. They trust the person on the platform. They assume that because someone has a title or a degree or a large following, they must be teaching truth.

And the enemy uses that trust to inject his lies. The third tactic was accusation and condemnation.

I watched as demonic forces whispered to believers, reminding them of their past, telling them they weren’t good enough, convincing them that God was disappointed in them, that they’d sinned too much, that they’d failed too many times, that they might as well give up.

And I watched people under this attack. Some of them withdrew from God, thinking he was mad at them.

Some of them gave up trying to pursue holiness because they figured they’d never measure up anyway.

Some of them became paralyzed by shame, unable to step into the calling God had for them because they were convinced they were disqualified.

And Jesus looked at these people with such grief. And he said, “I didn’t die for them so they could live in condemnation.”

Romans 8:1 says, “There is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, but the enemy has convinced them otherwise.

He’s convinced them that conviction and condemnation are the same thing.” They’re not. Conviction draws you to me.

It makes you want to repent and be clean. Condemnation pushes you away. It makes you want to hide.

It makes you want to give up. The chosen know the difference. When they feel conviction, they run to me, not from me.

They confess. They repent. They receive forgiveness. And they move forward. They don’t wallow in shame.

They don’t believe the lies about being disqualified. They stand on my word, on my blood, on my grace, and that keeps them free.

The fourth tactic was division. I watched as the enemy worked over time to create conflict, misunderstanding, offense, and division among believers.

He’d take small disagreements and blow them up into major riffs. He’d take personality differences and turn them into reasons for separation.

He’d take theological nuances and turn them into battle lines. And I watched churches split.

I watched friendships end. I watched families torn apart all over things that in the grand scheme of eternity were minor.

All because the enemy knew that a divided church is a powerless church. That believers fighting each other aren’t fighting him.

That Christians separated from one another are vulnerable and weak. Jesus said, “I prayed in John 17 that they would be one just as I and the Father are one because unity is powerful.

Unity is a witness to the world. Unity is what allows my power to flow through my body.

But the enemy has stolen that from most of my church. He’s got them arguing about styles and methods and preferences while the world is dying and going to hell.

The chosen have learned to major on the majors and minor on the minors. They’ve learned that unity doesn’t mean uniformity.

They’ve learned to love across differences and to focus on the mission instead of on their preferences.

The fifth tactic was fear. And this one Jesus showed me is going to intensify dramatically in the season we’re entering.

Fear of the future, fear of financial collapse, fear of persecution, fear of loss, fear of death, fear of pain, fear of being left behind, fear of missing out, fear of failure, fear of judgment.

And I watched as fear paralyzed people, kept them from obeying, kept them from stepping out in faith, kept them from taking risks for the kingdom, kept them playing it safe, holding back, protecting themselves.

And in protecting themselves, they were forfeiting the abundant life Jesus promised. Jesus said, I’ve told them over and over, fear not.

It’s one of the most repeated commands in scripture, but they don’t believe me. They think fear is realistic, that it’s wise, that it’s prudent.

But fear is the opposite of faith. And without faith, it’s impossible to please me.

The chosen have learned to recognize fear as a spiritual attack. And when it comes, they combat it with my word, with worship, with declarations of my promises.

They refuse to let fear dictate their decisions. They refuse to let it steal their peace.

They refuse to let it keep them from their destiny. The sixth tactic was compromise.

Slow, gradual, barely noticeable compromise. The enemy doesn’t usually try to get people to make one big obvious rebellion against God.

Instead, he gets them to make tiny compromises, little adjustments, small allowances, things that seem insignificant in the moment.

And I watched as people who started strong slowly drifted. They started by missing a few quiet times here and there.

Then they started consuming entertainment that was a little questionable. Then they started adopting attitudes that weren’t quite biblical.

Then they started making financial decisions that prioritized comfort over obedience. Then they started tolerating sin instead of confronting it.

Then they started justifying behaviors they once would have condemned. And it happened so gradually that they didn’t even notice.

They looked back and thought, “How did I get here? How did I drift so far?”

But it was one tiny compromise at a time. One small step away from the narrow path.

One little adjustment to make life easier or more comfortable or less confrontational. Jesus said, “This is why I told them to watch and pray, to be vigilant, to guard their hearts.”

Because the enemy doesn’t announce his attacks. He works in the shadows, in the subtleties, in the small things.

And by the time people realize how far they’ve drifted, it takes a massive course correction to get back.

The chosen have learned to draw hard lines, to make no provision for the flesh, to flee from even the appearance of evil.

They don’t play games with sin. They don’t see how close they can get to the edge without falling off.

They stay firmly on the narrow path and they course correct immediately when they feel themselves starting to drift.

And then Jesus showed me the seventh and most devastating tactic, spiritual apathy. This is where the enemy has convinced people that they’re fine, that they’re saved, that they’re good with God, so they can coast, they can relax, they can stop striving, stop pursuing, stop growing.

They’ve arrived, so they can just maintain. And I watched people who once had fire, who once had passion, who once were on fire for God, slowly cool down.

The fire became embers. The passion became routine. The pursuit became stagnation. And they didn’t see it as a problem.

They thought it was maturity. They thought it was settling in. They thought it was the natural progression of faith.

But Jesus said, “I didn’t call them to settle. I didn’t call them to coast.

I didn’t call them to maintain. I called them to press forward, to run the race, to fight the good fight, to pursue holiness, to grow from glory to glory.

There’s no arriving in this life. There’s only pressing on toward the prize.” And those who think they’ve arrived, who stop pursuing me, who become spiritually apathetic, they’re the ones who are most at risk of being left behind.

The chosen never stop pursuing. They never stop hungering. They never stop seeking more of me because they understand that knowing me isn’t a destination you reach.

It’s a journey that continues until the day they see me face to face. And that hunger, that desperation, that ongoing pursuit, it’s what keeps them alive spiritually.

It’s what keeps them from drifting. It’s what keeps them chosen. After showing me these seven tactics, Jesus said, “Now I’m going to show you how the chosen combat these attacks.”

Because it’s not enough to know the enemy’s strategy. You have to know how to defend against it.

You have to know how to fight. You have to know how to stand firm and not be moved.

And so, the vision shifted again. And Jesus began to show me what he called the seven weapons of the chosen.

These weren’t physical weapons, of course. These were spiritual disciplines, practices, mindsets that the chosen ones employ to defend against the enemy’s attacks and to remain faithful until the end.

The first weapon he showed me was the word of God. And I know that sounds basic.

That sounds like Christianity 101. But Jesus made it clear that most Christians don’t actually use the word as a weapon.

They read it casually. They reference it occasionally. They might even study it academically, but they don’t wield it.

He took me back to his own temptation in the wilderness. When Satan came at him with three different attacks, three different temptations, Jesus didn’t argue with him.

He didn’t try to reason with him. He didn’t rely on his own wisdom or strength.

Every single time he responded with, “It is written.” He quoted scripture. He used the word as a sword.

And Jesus said to me, “This is what the chosen do. They’ve memorized my word.

They’ve hidden it in their hearts.” And when the enemy attacks, when fear comes, when temptation comes, when doubt comes, when accusation comes, they speak the word out loud with authority.

And the enemy has to flee because he can’t stand against my word. He showed me believers who were under attack.

Some of them were trying to fight with their own logic, their own willpower, their own determination, and they were losing.

They were getting overwhelmed. But then I saw others who when the attack came immediately began quoting scripture, speaking truth, declaring what God says rather than accepting what the enemy says.

And the attacks broke. The darkness fled. The oppression lifted. This is why I told them to let my word dwell in them richly.

Jesus said, “Not just to have knowledge, but to have ammunition. Not just to understand theology, but to wield power.

The word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword. But it’s only effective if they use it.

The chosen have learned this. They don’t just read the Bible, they weaponize it. The second weapon was prayer, but not the kind of prayer most Christians pray.

Jesus showed me two types of prayer. The first was what he called grocery list prayer.

People coming to God with their list of wants and needs, presenting their requests, saying amen, and going about their day.

And he said, “There’s nothing wrong with petition that he invites us to bring our requests.”

But that’s not the kind of prayer that changes things. Then he showed me the second type, intercessory warfare prayer.

This was prayer that wasn’t just asking for things, but standing in the gap, fighting in the spiritual realm, binding and loosing, declaring and decreeing, worshiping and waring.

Prayer that lasted more than 5 minutes. Prayer that involved fasting. Prayer that involved persistence.

Prayer that involves spiritual violence against the kingdom of darkness. The chosen are warriors in prayer, Jesus said.

They don’t just say prayers, they do battle. They understand that the effectual, fervent prayer of the righteous accomplishes much.

They’ve learned to pray in the spirit. They’ve learned to pray with groans too deep for words.

They’ve learned to stand in the gap for their families, their churches, their cities, their nations.

And their prayers shift things in the heavenly realm that then manifest in the earthly realm.

He showed me a woman praying in her living room at 3:00 in the morning.

She was weeping, travailing, interceding for her wayward son. And I watched in the spiritual realm as her prayers were creating a hedge around him, breaking demonic assignments against him, preparing circumstances that would lead him back to God.

Her prayers were literally changing his destiny. And Jesus said, “This is the power I’ve given them.”

But most don’t use it. They pray weak prayers, half-hearted prayers, faithless prayers, and then they wonder why nothing changes.

The chosen have learned to pray with faith, with authority, with persistence, and they see results.

The third weapon was fasting, and Jesus made it very clear that fasting has become a lost discipline in the modern church.

People want all the benefits of a life with God, but they don’t want to do the things that unlock those benefits.

He said, “When my disciples couldn’t cast out a demon, and they asked me why, I told them, this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting.

There are levels of spiritual breakthrough, levels of spiritual power, levels of spiritual clarity that cannot be accessed without fasting.

But the modern church is too comfortable, too attached to their physical appetites, too unwilling to deny themselves.

And so they remain spiritually weak. He showed me the chosen ones, and so many of them had regular fasting practices.

Some fasted one day a week. Some fasted 3 days at a time when facing major decisions or spiritual battles.

Some did extended fasts of 7, 21, or even 40 days when God called them to.

And the spiritual power and clarity they operated in was dramatically different from those who never fasted.

Fasting breaks the power of the flesh. Jesus said, “It sharpens spiritual senses. It creates desperation for me.

It demonstrates to the spiritual realm that you’re serious, that you’re willing to sacrifice, that you’re not playing games, and it releases breakthrough.”

The chosen have learned this ancient discipline. They’ve made it part of their rhythm and it’s one of the reasons they’re able to stand when others fall.

The fourth weapon was worship, but again, not the kind of worship that happens for 20 minutes on Sunday morning.

Jesus showed me that true worship is a lifestyle. It’s a weapon. It’s a way of declaring God’s worthiness even when circumstances say otherwise.

He took me to the story of Paul and Silas in prison, beaten, bleeding, locked in stocks in the innermost cell.

And at midnight, instead of complaining, instead of despairing, instead of questioning God, they were singing hymns and praises.

And their worship shook the foundations of the prison, broke open the doors, and loosed everyone’s chains.

This is the power of worship. Jesus said, “It doesn’t just make you feel good.

It shifts atmospheres. It breaks chains. It confuses the enemy. Because when you worship me in the midst of your pain, in the midst of your trials, in the midst of your testing, you’re declaring that I’m bigger than your circumstances.

You’re declaring that I’m worthy regardless of what you’re going through. And that kind of faith, that kind of trust.

It releases my power. He showed me people who’d made worship their first response instead of their last resort.

When something went wrong, instead of panicking, they woripped. When they received bad news, instead of falling, they worshiped.

When they were under attack, instead of defending themselves, they worshiped. And I watched as worship became a shield around them, a weapon against the enemy, a door to break through.

The chosen are worshippers, Jesus said. Not just when they feel like it, not just when things are going well.

In all things, at all times, through all circumstances, because they understand that I inhabit the praises of my people.

Where there’s worship, I show up. And where I show up, everything changes. The fifth weapon was community.

And Jesus was very specific about this. Not just attending church, not just having Christian friends, but being in real, authentic, vulnerable community where people know you, where there’s accountability, where there’s mutual encouragement and correction.

The enemy’s strategy is to isolate. Jesus said, “To convince people they can do this alone.

To make them think they don’t need the body, to fill them with pride that says, I’ve got this.

I I don’t need help. I don’t need accountability. I don’t need anyone speaking into my life.

And once he gets them isolated, they’re easy prey. He showed me believers who tried to walk out their faith solo.

They didn’t have accountability. They didn’t have people who could speak truth to them. They didn’t have anyone who really knew what was going on in their life.

And I watched as they slowly drifted, slowly compromised, slowly fell into sin. And there was no one there to catch them, to warn them, to pull them back.

Then he showed me the chosen ones and they were all part of authentic community.

They had people who could call them out when they were wrong, people who could encourage them when they were weak, people who could pray with them when they were under attack, people who could celebrate with them when they had victories.

And this community kept them strong, kept them accountable, kept them on track. I designed them for community.

Jesus said, “The body needs every part. And those who try to function as lone rangers, as spiritual mavericks, they’re violating my design.

They’re making themselves vulnerable. The chosen understand that they need each other. And they’ve prioritized being in real community even when it’s inconvenient, even when it’s uncomfortable, even when it requires vulnerability.

The sixth weapon was radical obedience. And Jesus made it clear that this was different from general obedience or selective obedience.

Radical obedience means immediate, complete obedience to every prompting of the Holy Spirit, no matter the cost.

Most of my people obey me when it’s convenient. He said, when it makes sense, when it doesn’t cost them too much, when it aligns with what they already wanted to do.

But that’s not the obedience I’m looking for. I’m looking for Abraham level obedience. The kind of obedience that says, “Yes, Lord,” before even knowing what I’m asking.

The kind of obedience that’s willing to sacrifice the most precious thing. The kind of obedience that moves immediately, not eventually.

He showed me moments where the Holy Spirit prompted someone to do something, to give a large sum of money, to reach out to someone they’d been avoiding, to quit a job, to move to a new city, to have a difficult conversation, to confess something they’d been hiding.

And I watched two different responses. Some people hesitated. They analyzed. They made excuses. They said, “Let me pray about it.”

Which was really code for, “Let me see if I can talk myself out of it.”

And the longer they delayed, the quieter the prompting became until finally it faded completely and the opportunity was lost.

But the chosen, when they heard that prompting, they moved immediately. They didn’t analyze. They didn’t make excuses.

They didn’t wait for perfect conditions. They just obeyed. And I watched as their immediate obedience opened doors they never could have opened themselves.

It brought breakthrough they never could have orchestrated. It positioned them exactly where they needed to be for what was coming next.

This is the key to walking with me. Jesus said, “Immediate, complete, radical obedience, not partial obedience, not delayed obedience, not negotiated obedience, just obedience.”

The chosen have learned this and it’s one of the main reasons they’re chosen because I can trust them.

I can give them assignments and know they’ll carry them out. I can speak to them and know they’ll respond.

That’s who I’m looking for. The seventh weapon was prophetic vision. And this doesn’t mean everyone has to be a prophet.

Jesus explained that prophetic vision means seeing things from an eternal perspective. Seeing beyond the natural into the spiritual, understanding the times and seasons, recognizing what God is doing in the earth.

My people perish for lack of vision, he said, not because they don’t have information, but because they can’t see what I’m doing.

They’re so focused on the natural, on their immediate circumstances, on the natural, temporal, that they miss the eternal.

They don’t understand the season they’re in. They don’t recognize the moment. They don’t perceive my movements.

He showed me people going about their daily lives completely oblivious to what was happening in the spiritual realm.

Completely unaware that we’re in the final moments before his return. Completely blind to the fact that every day matters.

Every decision counts. Every moment is pregnant with eternal significance. They were treating life as though they had all the time in the world.

As though nothing urgent was happening. Then he showed me the chosen and they had their eyes wide open.

They were watching. They were discerning. They were recognizing the signs of the times. They understood that these weren’t normal days.

They saw the birth pangs increasing. They recognized the season. And that awareness affected everything.

How they spent their time, how they used their resources, what they prioritized, what they let go of.

The chosen are watchmen. Jesus said, “They’re not asleep. They’re not distracted. They’re alert. They’re sober minded.

They have eyes to see and ears to hear. And because they understand the times, they know what to do.

They’re not caught off guard. They’re not surprised. They’re prepared. After showing me the seven weapons, Jesus did something unexpected in the vision.

He took me to what I can only describe as a gallery. And on the walls were portraits.

But these weren’t ordinary portraits. They were living images of people from throughout church history, people who had been chosen, people who had finished their race faithfully.

And he wanted me to see them, to learn from them, to understand what being chosen actually looked like in real lives.

The first portrait he took me to was of a young woman. I couldn’t see her face clearly, but I knew somehow that she was from the early church, maybe first or second century.

And Jesus said, “She was given a choice. Renounce me and live or confess me and die.”

She was barely 20 years old. She had her whole life ahead of her and she chose me.

She was burned alive for her faith and now she wears a crown of life that will never fade.

I watched in the vision as her story unfolded. The Roman soldiers coming to her home.

The arrest, the trial, the pressure from her family to just say the words, to just deny Christ with her mouth, even if she didn’t mean it in her heart, to just survive.

And I watched her refuse. I watched her stand before the authorities and declare Jesus as Lord.

I watched her walk to her execution with joy on her face, singing hymns, praying for her executioners.

And I watched her take her last breath and immediately be welcomed into paradise by Jesus himself.

And he said to me, “This is what it means to be chosen, to value me more than life itself, to be willing to lose everything rather than deny me.

And in this generation, in the days that are coming, many of my chosen ones will face this same test.

Not everyone, but many. And they need to decide now what they’ll choose then. Because if they’re not willing to die for me, they’re not truly living for me.

The second portrait was of a man I somehow knew was a pastor from maybe the 1800s.

I’m not sure. And his story unfolded. He had been the pastor of a large prestigious church, wealthy members, political influence, comfortable salary, respect in the community, and God called him to preach a message about repentance, about holiness, about judgment.

A message he knew would offend most of his congregation. I watched him wrestle with it.

The enemy whispering, “You’ll lose everything. They’ll fire you. You’ll ruin your reputation. Your family will suffer.

Just water it down a little. Just soften it. Just give them what they want to hear.

And I watched him get on his knees and pray through the night. And finally, I heard him say, “Lord, I’d rather preach your truth to an empty room than preach lies to a full one.”

And the next Sunday, I watched him preach that message with tears streaming down his face, with his voice breaking, but with unwavering conviction.

And I watched as more than half the congregation walked out. I watched as the church board called an emergency meeting.

I watched as they voted to remove him. I watched as he packed up his office, as his family faced financial hardship, as his reputation was destroyed in that community.

But then Jesus fast forwarded the story. And I watched as that man continued preaching in smaller venues to fewer people, without the prestige or the salary or the respect, but with power, with anointing, with signs and wonders following.

And I watched as a genuine revival broke out, as people who were truly hungry for God were drawn to his ministry, as lives were radically transformed, as a movement began that outlasted his lifetime and affected thousands of souls.

And Jesus said, “This is what it means to be chosen, to be willing to lose the approval of man, to gain the approval of God, to be willing to sacrifice position and prestige for the sake of truth.”

And many of my leaders in this generation are going to face this same choice.

Keep your platform by compromising or lose your platform by standing firm. And what they choose will determine whether they’re called or chosen.

The third portrait was of a woman. And I sense she was from more recent history, maybe the mid 1900s.

And her story was different. She wasn’t martyed. She wasn’t a pastor. She was a housewife, a mother, someone who most people would consider ordinary, unremarkable.

But Jesus lingered on her portrait with such love, such honor, and he showed me her life.

I watched her wake up every morning at 5:00 a.m. Before her family was awake and spend an hour in prayer, not reciting wrote prayers, but travailing, interceding, weeping over her children, crying out for her community, standing in the gap for her nation.

Day after day, year after year, decade after decade, no one knew, no one saw, no one applauded.

There was no platform, no recognition, no ministry title. But in the spiritual realm, I watched as her prayers moved heaven.

I watched as angelic beings were dispatched in response to her intercession. I watched as her children, who all went through seasons of rebellion, all eventually came back to God and not just came back, but became mighty warriors for the kingdom themselves.

I watched as entire family lines were changed because of her faithfulness. I watched as she affected her community in ways she never saw with her natural eyes.

And when she died quietly in her sleep at 87 years old, I watched her arrival in heaven and the reception she received.

I can’t even describe it. The honor, the crowns, the well done, good and faithful servant.

Jesus himself embracing her, saying, “Your prayers changed the course of history. Your faithfulness in the secret place accomplished what many public ministries could not.”

And Jesus said to me, “This is what it means to be chosen. It’s not always about the public platform.

It’s not always about being seen and known. Some of my most powerful chosen ones labor in secret in their prayer closets, in the hidden place, and they accomplish more in the spiritual realm than many who have great visibility in the natural realm.

Don’t let the enemy convince anyone that they’re not significant if they’re not on a stage.

I see the hidden things. I reward the secret place. And some of the greatest heroes in my kingdom are people whose names were never known on earth, but are written in heaven.

The fourth portrait was of a young man and I knew immediately this was a modern story, someone from our generation and Jesus showed me his life.

He grew up in the church, got saved young, felt called to ministry, went to Bible school, had dreams of changing the world for God.

But then I watched as he graduated and couldn’t find a ministry position. He applied to churches, to missions organizations, to Christian nonprofits, rejection after rejection.

He had student loans piling up. He had to take a job at a warehouse to pay bills.

And I watched as the disappointment set in as he started questioning God. I thought you called me.

I thought I was supposed to be in ministry. Why am I working in a warehouse?

Did I hear you wrong? Did I waste my time? And the enemy was there whispering, “See, you’re not special.

You’re not chosen. You missed it. God’s not going to use you. You should just give up on ministry and focus on making money.

And I watched this young man wrestle with despair, with disillusionment, with doubt. But then I watched as he made a decision.

He said, “God, I don’t understand, but I’m going to be faithful where you have me.

If you’ve called me to work in a warehouse, then I’m going to be the best warehouse worker they’ve ever had, and I’m going to minister to whoever you put in front of me.

I’m not going to despise small beginnings. I’m not going to waste this season waiting for the real ministry to start.”

And Jesus fast forwarded and I watched as this young man began ministering to his co-workers, praying with them on breaks, sharing the gospel, leading Bible studies in his apartment.

And I watched as people came to Christ, as lives were changed, as a movement began in that warehouse that spread to other workplaces in the city.

And then after years, not months, years of faithfulness in that place, I watched as a door opened.

A church that hadn’t even existed when he first graduated reached out. They’d heard about what God was doing through him in the marketplace.

They wanted him on staff. And the ministry he stepped into was more powerful, more anointed, more effective than anything he could have orchestrated for himself because it had been forged through the years of faithfulness and obscurity.

And Jesus said, “This is what it means to be chosen, to be faithful in the waiting.

To be faithful in obscurity. To be faithful when your timeline and my timeline don’t match.

To trust that I know what I’m doing, even when you can’t see it. Many people are called, but when the process takes longer than they expected.

When it looks different than they imagined, when it requires humility they weren’t prepared for, they give up.

They become bitter. They walk away. But the chosen endure. They remain faithful. They trust the process.

And in due season they reap if they faint not. The fifth portrait was of an older man and Jesus said, “This one is important for many who are watching.”

And I watched his story unfold. He had been a successful Christian businessman, made millions, built a company, was generous with his giving, served on church boards, was respected in Christian circles.

By all external measures, he was a faithful believer. But then God asked him to give it all away.

Not 10%, not 50%, all of it. Sell the business, give away the wealth, and move to the mission field at 60 years old to a place where he didn’t speak the language, where he’d have no status, where he’d be starting over.

And I watched as this man wrestled with God. Lord, I’ve been faithful with the wealth you gave me.

I’ve been a good steward. I’ve given generously. Why would you ask me to give it all up?

Why would you ask me to leave everything I’ve built? I can do more good with the resources I have here than I could starting over somewhere else at my age.

And I watched this man almost say no, almost convince himself that God wouldn’t really ask something so radical.

Almost decide that he could serve God just as well by keeping his wealth in his position.

But then something shifted and I heard him pray, “Lord, if you’re asking me to become poor so I can make others rich in you, I’ll do it.

If you’re asking me to decrease so you can increase, I’ll do it. If you’re asking me to lose my life so I can find it, I’ll do it.

And I watched as he sold everything. As he said goodbye to his comfortable life, as he moved to a remote village in Africa, as he spent the last 15 years of his life building wells, teaching the Bible, discipling leaders, living simply, and serving sacrificially.

And when he died at 75, buried in that village, I watched his welcome into heaven.

And the treasure he had there was beyond comprehension. And Jesus said, “This is what it means to be chosen.

To be willing to give up everything I’ve given you if I ask for it back, to hold it all with an open hand, to value me more than the blessings.”

And in this generation, many of my wealthy believers are going to be tested in this exact way.

I’m going to ask them to give up their security, their comfort, their wealth, and what they choose will reveal whether they loved me or loved my blessings.

As I stood there looking at these portraits, these stories of the chosen throughout history, something began to shift in me.

It wasn’t just information I was receiving anymore. It was transformation. It was like each story was breaking something off of me.

False beliefs, wrong priorities, misplaced values. And simultaneously, each story was building something in me.

Courage, faith, conviction, clarity about what actually matters. And Jesus turned to me and said, “Do you see the common thread?

Do you see what makes these people chosen rather than just called?” And I looked back at all the portraits, at all their stories.

And suddenly it clicked. It wasn’t their gifting. It wasn’t their talents. It wasn’t their opportunities or their circumstances.

It was their yes. It was their willingness to surrender everything, to obey completely, to value him above all else, no matter the cost.

Every single one of them had reached a moment, sometimes multiple moments, where they had to choose.

Choose comfort or Christ, choose security or surrender, choose the world’s approval or God’s approval, choose self-preservation or self-sacrifice.

And in that moment, they chose him. And that choice, that willingness to lose everything to gain him, that’s what made them chosen.

And Jesus said, “Now I want to show you something else. I want to show you what happens to those who are called but choose not to become chosen because the consequences are real, and people need to understand what’s at stake.”

And the vision shifted, and this part was much harder to watch. He showed me people who had been genuinely saved, genuinely born again, who had started their journey with Jesus, but who had never fully surrendered, who had kept areas of their life off limits, who had compromised rather than stood firm, who had valued comfort over calling.

The first person I saw was a man who I knew had been a worship leader, talented, gifted, anointed at one time, and I watched his story.

In his early 20s, he was on fire for God, leading worship with passion, writing songs, ministering powerfully.

People were touched by his ministry. Lives were changed. But then I watched as he started to get attention.

Record labels became interested. Opportunities opened up for mainstream success. And I watched as he was faced with a choice.

He could stay in the church world ministering to believers, making modest money, remaining relatively unknown outside Christian circles.

Or he could sign with a major label, cross over into the mainstream market, make millions, become famous, but he’d have to water down his message, remove the explicitly Christian content, appeal to a broader audience.

And I watched as he convinced himself that he could reach more people in the mainstream, that he could be a light in the darkness of the secular music industry, that he could make a greater impact with a larger platform.

And he signed the deal. And at first it seemed to work. His music was played on secular radio.

He performed on late night shows. He was nominated for awards. He made millions. But I watched as his faith slowly faded.

As the compromise that started small became bigger and bigger. As his lifestyle began to brene mirror the world around him.

As he stopped reading the word, stopped praying, stopped attending church. As relationships with other believers became inconvenient.

As sin that he once avoided became normalized then embraced. And by his 40s, though he was rich and famous, he was spiritually dead.

Still occasionally mentioning God in interviews, still claiming faith, but there was no fruit, no genuine relationship, no intimacy with Jesus.

And then I watched the rapture happened in his timeline, and he was left behind.

Standing in his mansion, surrounded by wealth, with fame and accolades, but not chosen. And the horror on his face when he realized what had just happened.

The anguish when he understood what he’d traded for temporary success. I can’t even describe it.

And Jesus said to me, with such sadness, he was called. I had plans for him.

I wanted to use him mightily, but he loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.

He chose the broad road that leads to destruction. And now he’ll face the tribulation, and his wealth won’t save him.

His fame won’t protect him, and he’ll wish he’d made different choices when he had the chance.

The second person was a woman, and I knew she’d been a pastor’s wife, and I watched her story unfold.

She married a man called to ministry. They planted a church together. Started small in their living room with just a handful of people.

And those early years were hard. They were broke. They lived on faith. But there was such joy, such intimacy with God, such genuine community.

But then the church began to grow and grow and grow. And with the growth came money, status, influence.

They built a building. Then a bigger building. The church became a mega church. Her husband became a well-known pastor.

They moved into a large house. Started traveling in ministry circles. And somewhere along the way, I watched as this woman’s heart changed.

She started caring more about her appearance, her wardrobe, her image than about her character.

She started comparing herself to other pastor’s wives. She started enjoying the preferential treatment, the recognition, the perks that came with being married to a prominent pastor.

And I watched as materialism took root, as pride grew, as genuine relationships were replaced with strategic connections, as prayer and worship were replaced with shopping and social media, and her husband was so busy building the ministry that he didn’t notice.

Or maybe he did notice, but didn’t want to deal with it. And I watched as their marriage became more of a ministry partnership than a covenant relationship.

As their children grew up with everything money could buy but without genuine spiritual foundation.

As the whole family looked perfect on the outside but was hollow on the inside.

And then I watched the rapture in her timeline. And she was left behind in her beautiful home with her designer clothes with her social media following but not chosen.

And I watched as she ran through the house screaming for her husband but he was gone taken.

And she realized in that moment that he had remained faithful in his heart even while building the mega church.

He had kept his first love. But she had not. She had been so distracted by the blessings that she’d forgotten the one who blessed.

And Jesus said, “She was called. I called her alongside her husband. But she loved the world.

She loved status. She loved comfort. And she lost sight of me. And now everything she valued, everything she worked for, everything she built her identity on, it’s all going to be destroyed in the judgments that are coming.

And she’ll spend eternity wishing she’d chosen differently. The third person was a young man, a student, and I watched his story.

He grew up in a strong Christian home, was homeschooled, went to youth group, went on mission trips, made a commitment to Christ as a teenager, seemed to be on a good path, but then he went to college.

And I watched as he was hit with intellectual challenges to his faith, professors who mocked Christianity, classmates who ridiculed his beliefs, a culture that celebrated everything his faith opposed.

And I watched as he began to doubt, to question, to wonder if maybe what he’d been taught wasn’t actually true, if maybe the Bible wasn’t really God’s word, if maybe there were other paths to truth.

And instead of fighting for his faith, instead of digging deeper into apologetics and theology, instead of finding a strong Christian community to support him, I watched as he slowly drifted.

He stopped going to church, stopped reading the Bible, stopped praying, started partying, started sleeping around, started embracing the philosophy and the lifestyle of those around him.

And by the time he graduated, though he still might have called himself a Christian if asked, there was nothing real there anymore.

No relationship, no fruit, no evidence of genuine faith. He got a job, made good money, got married to a non-believer, had kids, lived a comfortable suburban life, and occasionally when someone died or something tragic happened, he’d think about God.

He’d feel a twinge of conviction, but he’d push it down and keep living his life.

And then the rapture happened in his timeline, and he was left behind at 43 years old with a nice house and a good job and a family.

And I watched as his elderly parents, who’d prayed for him for decades, were gone, taken, and he realized that everything they’d taught him was true.

And he’d walked away from it. And now he’d face the tribulation. And his wife and kids would face it, too.

All because he’d chosen the approval of the world over faithfulness to God. And Jesus said, “He was called, I drew him.

I pursued him. But he loved the praise of his peers more than me. He was ashamed of me.

And in Matthew 10:33, I said, “Whoever denies me before men, him I will also deny before my father who is in heaven.”

He had every opportunity. He had knowledge. He had a godly foundation, but he walked away.

And now the consequences are eternal. The fourth story Jesus showed me was of an elderly woman.

And this one broke my heart in a different way because she had been faithful for so long.

Decades of walking with God, decades of service, decades of devotion. But then something happened.

Her husband died. And in her grief, she became angry at God. I watched as bitterness took root, as she stopped praying, as she stopped attending church.

As she isolated herself, and well-meaning friends would reach out, would try to help, but she pushed them all away.

She felt God had betrayed her by taking her husband. She felt he had failed her.

And she held on to that offense, that anger, that bitterness. And years passed, 5 years, 10 years, and the bitterness hardened into a shell around her heart.

People stopped reaching out as much because she’d rejected help so many times. And she lived alone, angry, bitter, feeling justified in her anger.

And then the rapture happened and she was left behind at 78 years old after a lifetime of service.

And Jesus said to me with tears in his eyes, “Unforgiveness disqualifies, bitterness disqualifies.” She had run the race well for so long, but she didn’t finish.

She let offense take root, and she wouldn’t let it go. I sent people to help her.

I gave her opportunities to heal, but she chose to hold on to her anger.

And holding on to anger toward me is holding on to sin, and unrepentant sin separates.

Hebrews 12:15 warns about this. See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God.

That no root of bitterness springs up and causes trouble, and by it many become defiled.

She let that root grow, and it choked out her faith. And now, after all those years of faithfulness, she’ll face the tribulation because she wouldn’t forgive me for something I didn’t even do wrong.

She wouldn’t trust my sovereignty. She wouldn’t surrender her grief and let me heal her.

After showing me these four stories, Jesus said, “I could show you thousands more, millions more.

People who started well but didn’t finish. People who were called but never became chosen.

People who had every opportunity but made the wrong choices. And the common thread is always the same.

They chose something else over me. They let something else become more valuable than me.

And in the end, that choice cost them everything. The weight of what I’d just seen, those four stories of people who were called but not chosen, it was crushing.

And I stood there in the vision just weeping. Weeping for them. Weeping for everyone who’s going to face that same fate.

Weeping at the waste of it all, the unnecessary tragedy. Because every single one of them had a choice.

Every single one of them could have chosen differently. And Jesus let me weep. He didn’t rush me.

He didn’t tell me to pull myself together. He wept with me. And after a while, he said, “Now you understand why this message is so urgent.

Now you understand why it has to go out this weekend. Because time is running out.

The door is closing. And I need my people to understand what’s at stake. I need them to see that being called isn’t enough.

I need them to choose to be chosen while there’s still time.” And then the vision shifted one more time.

And this is the part that’s going to be hard for some of you to hear, but I have to share it because Jesus specifically told me to.

He showed me the church, not a specific church building, but the universal church, the body of Christ as a whole.

And he showed me how he sees it right now in this moment. And what I saw was shocking because from the outside, in many ways, the church looks strong.

There are massive mega churches, huge conferences, Christian media everywhere, worship music topping charts, best-selling Christian books, influential Christian leaders.

By external metrics, it looks like the church is thriving. But Jesus pulled back the surface and he showed me what he sees.

And it was like looking at a body that appears healthy on the outside but is ravaged with cancer on the inside.

Because spiritually so much of what calls itself the church is sick, compromised, lukewarm, powerless.

He took me to Revelation 3 to the letter to the church in Leodysia. And he said, “Read it because this is the condition of much of my church in America and the Western world right now.”

And I read, “I know your works that you are neither cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or hot.

So then, because you are lukewarm and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of my mouth because you say, “I am rich, have become wealthy, and have need of nothing, and do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked.”

And Jesus said, “This is what I see when I look at so much of the modern church.

They think they’re rich. They point to their buildings, their budgets, their attendance numbers, their influence.

They think they have need of nothing. But spiritually they’re wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked.

They have a form of godliness but deny the power. They have programs but no presence.

They have entertainment but no anointing. They have crowds but no genuine disciples. And he showed me churches where the preaching had been watered down to self-help messages with a little Jesus sprinkled on top.

Where sin was never called sin because it might offend someone. Where repentance was never mentioned because it wasn’t seeker friendly.

Where holiness was never taught because it was too demanding, where the fear of the Lord was absent because it made people uncomfortable.

He showed me worship services that were more like concerts designed to create an emotional experience rather than to facilitate genuine encounter with God.

He showed me programs and events that looked impressive but produced no lasting fruit, no genuine transformation.

He showed me leaders more concerned with growing their platform than with feeding the sheep.

More focused on being relevant than on being faithful. And then he said something that shook me to my core.

He said, “When I return, I will shake everything that can be shaken. And much of what currently calls itself my church will not survive that shaking because it’s built on sand.

It’s built on human wisdom, human methods, human charisma. And when the storm comes, and it’s coming soon, only what’s built on the rock of obedience to my word will stand.

The chosen understand this. They’re not impressed with size or style. They’re not looking for entertainment or motivation.

They’re looking for truth. They’re looking for presence. They’re looking for power. And they’re willing to be part of a remnant rather than a crowd if that’s what it takes to have the real thing.

And then Jesus showed me something that gave me hope. Because even though much of the visible church is compromised, there’s a remnant.

There are believers scattered throughout every denomination, every type of church, every nation, who are genuinely sold out, who are radically devoted, who are living holy lives, who are walking in power, who are about their father’s business.

They’re not all famous. Most of them aren’t. They’re not all on platforms. Many of them are hidden, but they’re there, the chosen ones.

And Jesus said, “This is my true church. This is my bride, and this is who I’m coming for.”

He showed me house churches where believers were meeting in secret because their faith was illegal.

He showed me intercessors in prayer closets in the middle of the night, travailing for nations.

He showed me missionaries in remote villages, living on next to nothing but seeing genuine revival.

He showed me teenagers who’d taken stands for purity and holiness in a culture that mocked them.

He showed me business people who’d chosen integrity over profit and trusted God with the consequences.

He showed me elderly saints who’d remained faithful for decades and were finishing strong. And Jesus said, “These are mine.

These are chosen, and when I come, I’m coming for them. Not for the impressive ministries with no power.

Not for the popular preachers who compromise truth for applause. Not for the churches with big buildings and dead religion.

I’m coming for the ones who truly know me. The ones who’ve made me their everything.

The ones who are ready. And then he gave me specific instructions. He said, “I want you to issue a call, a final call before this season ends.

I want you to tell everyone who’s watching that they have this weekend to make their choice to decide whether they’re going to remain merely called or become chosen.

And here’s what they need to do. And so I’m going to share with you exactly what Jesus told me to tell you.

These are the specific action steps he’s calling people to take this weekend. Not suggestions, not recommendations, commands from the king.

And your response to these will determine whether you move from called to chosen. First, he said, “There needs to be a time of honest self-examination.

You need to get alone with God. No distractions, no phone, no interruptions. And you need to ask him to search your heart.

Ask him to reveal any area of compromise, any secret sin, any divided loyalty, any place where you’ve been holding back.

And then you need to listen. Really listen. And write down whatever he shows you.

Don’t make excuses. Don’t justify. Don’t minimize. Just acknowledge it, confess it, call it what he calls it.

And this might take hours. It might be painful. You might discover things about yourself that you didn’t want to face.

But you can’t deal with what you won’t acknowledge. And the chosen are people who are willing to face the truth about themselves, no matter how uncomfortable.

Second, there needs to be genuine repentance. Not just feeling sorry, not just feeling guilty.

Genuine repentance means you turn away from the sin. You make whatever changes are necessary.

You burn whatever bridges need to be burned. You end whatever relationships need to be ended.

You delete whatever needs to be deleted. You confess whatever needs to be confessed. If it’s pornography, you don’t just promise to try harder.

You get accountability software. You get in a recovery group. You confess to someone who will hold you accountable.

If it’s an inappropriate relationship, you don’t just put up boundaries. You end it completely.

If it’s financial dishonesty, you don’t just stop the current issue. You make restitution for past wrongs.

If it’s unforgiveness, you don’t just say you forgive. You release the offense and pray blessing over the person who hurt you.

True repentance is radical. It’s complete. It’s immediate. And the chosen are people who’ve learned to repent thoroughly, not superficially.

Third, there needs to be full surrender. And Jesus was very specific about this. He said, “I want them to physically get on their knees.

I want them to lift their hands and I want them to say out loud, Jesus, I surrender everything to you.

My past, my present, my future, my relationships, my career, my finances, my dreams, my plans, my reputation, my comfort, my life, everything.

I hold nothing back. I make you Lord of all, not just savior. Do whatever you want with my life.

Send me wherever you want to send me. Use me however you want to use me.

I am completely yours. And he said, “The words matter. Speaking it out loud matters.

The physical posture of kneeling matters because it’s a declaration to the spiritual realm. It’s a line in the sand.

It’s a moment they can point back to and say, “That’s when everything changed. That’s when I truly surrendered.”

Fourth, there needs to be restitution and reconciliation where necessary. Jesus said, “If they’ve wronged someone, they need to make it right.

If they’ve stolen, they need to return or repay. If they’ve slandered, they need to apologize.

If they’ve damaged relationships through their sin, they need to seek reconciliation. And they need to do it this weekend.

Not eventually, not when it’s convenient.” Now, he said, “Zakius, when he encountered me, didn’t just feel bad about his fraud.

He immediately committed to repay four-fold. That’s the kind of restitution I’m looking for. And the chosen are people who don’t just want their conscience cleared with me.

They want to make things right with the people they’ve wronged. Fifth, there needs to be a commitment to daily intimacy.

Jesus said they need to establish a daily time with me that’s non-negotiable, at least an hour.

And during that time, they’re reading my word, praying, worshiping, listening, not performing a duty, not checking off a box, but genuinely connecting with me.

And this needs to start tomorrow morning, not next week, not when life calms down.

Tomorrow. And he said, “If they say they don’t have an hour, they need to look at how they’re spending their time and eliminate whatever is stealing that hour.

Whether it’s sleep, whether it’s entertainment, whether it’s social media, whether it’s work, because if they’re too busy for an hour with me, they’re too busy, and something has to change.

Sixth, there needs to be a commitment to biblical community and accountability. Jesus said they can’t do this alone.

They need to be connected to a local body of believers and not just attending on Sundays.

They need to be in a small group or accountability relationship where people know their struggles, where there’s transparency, where there’s mutual encouragement and correction.

And if they’re not in a healthy church, they need to find one. This weekend, start visiting.

Start asking God to lead them. And when they find it, they need to commit.

Not just show up when it’s convenient. Commit, plant, serve, give, become part of the family.

Seventh, and this is the last one, there needs to be a commitment to immediate obedience.

Jesus said, “From this point forward, whenever they sense my prompting, whenever they feel my leading, they obey immediately.

Not eventually, immediately. If I tell them to give, they give. If I tell them to speak, they speak.

If I tell them to go, they go. If I tell them to stop something, they stop.

No more hesitation, no more negotiation, no more delay. Immediate obedience becomes their lifestyle. And after giving me these seven action steps, Jesus said, “Tell them that if they do these things genuinely and completely, they will move from called to chosen.

They will position themselves to be part of my bride. They will be ready when I return.

But if they hear this message and do nothing, if they feel convicted but don’t act, if they intend to change but never follow through, then they’re in great danger.”

Because James 1:22 says, “Be doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.”

Hearing this message and not acting on it is worse than never hearing it at all.

Because now they’re accountable. Now they know. And to whom much is given, much is required.

We’re coming to the end now. It’s almost 7:00 a.m. The sun is fully up.

I can hear the world waking up outside. And I’m exhausted in every way, physically, emotionally, spiritually.

But there’s a peace that’s come over me because I know I’ve delivered everything Jesus told me to deliver.

I’ve held nothing back. I’ve said everything he wanted said and now it’s up to you to decide what you’re going to do with it.

But before I close, there are a few final things Jesus wants me to say and these are so important.

These are the last words he gave me before the vision ended and I woke up in my bed shaking and weeping.

He said, “Tell them I love them. Tell them that everything I’m asking of them, I’m asking because I love them.

I’m not trying to take from them. I’m trying to give to them. I’m not trying to make their lives harder.

I’m trying to make their lives fuller. I’m not trying to rob them of joy.

I’m trying to lead them into the only joy that lasts. Everything I ask, I ask out of love.

And I felt the weight of his love as he said it. This isn’t a harsh God cracking a whip.

This isn’t an angry God waiting to punish. This is a savior who died for us, who’s coming back for us, who desperately wants us to be ready, who doesn’t want anyone to be left behind, who’s extending every possible opportunity for people to choose him fully.

He said, “Tell them that I’m not surprised by their struggles. I’m not shocked by their failures.

I’m not disgusted by their sin. I know everything. I’ve always known and I love them anyway.”

But love doesn’t leave people in their sin. Love calls them higher. Love demands transformation.

Love requires holiness because I know that’s the only way they can experience the fullness of what I created them for.

And then he said something that I want to make absolutely clear because I know some people are going to misunderstand this message.

He said, tell them this isn’t about earning salvation. Salvation is by grace through faith.

They can’t earn it. They can’t work for it. It’s a gift. But being chosen, being part of the bride, that requires response.

That requires faithfulness, that requires endurance. Many are saved who won’t be chosen. They’ll make it to heaven eventually, but only after going through the tribulation.

And the suffering they’ll endure, the martyrdom many will face, all of it could be avoided if they would just surrender now.

So, this isn’t a message about losing salvation. This is a message about positioning, about readiness, about being part of the bride versus being a guest at the wedding, about reigning with me versus being ruled over, about reward versus loss, about being taken in the rapture versus being left for the tribulation.

The stakes are higher than most people realize. And then Jesus said, “Tell them about the rewards because I don’t want fear to be the only motivator.

Yes, there are consequences for not being chosen, but there are also incredible rewards for those who are.

And he showed me what he was talking about. He showed me the chosen ones in the millennial kingdom, reigning with Christ.

He showed them with crowns, with authority, with honor. He showed them assigned to cities, to regions, to nations, ruling and judging alongside Jesus.

He showed them with glorified bodies, with perfect intimacy with God, with no more tears, no more pain, no more struggle.

And he showed me the joy, the overwhelming, indescribable joy of those who’d been faithful, who’d endured, who’d surrendered everything and gained everything.

And he said, “Tell them it’s worth it. Tell them that whatever they give up for me, I’ll repay a hundfold.

Tell them that the momentary afflictions they endure are producing an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison.

Tell them that if they could see for just one second what I have prepared for those who love me, they would run towards surrender, not away from it.

And then he gave me one final word. And this is the word I want to end with.

He said, “Tell them that the door is still open. Right now, in this moment, the door is still open, but it won’t be for much longer.

I’m coming soon, very soon. And when I come, the door closes.” So, if they’re hearing this message, if they’re feeling the conviction of my spirit, if they’re sensing the urgency, they need to respond now.

Not tomorrow. Not next week. Not after they get their life together. Now, because they might not have tomorrow.

They might not get another chance. This might be their final opportunity. And if they ignore this, if they harden their hearts, if they choose comfort over surrender, they’re making a choice that will echo through eternity.

And I don’t want that for them. I’m calling them. I’m pleading with them. I’m extending mercy, but they have to respond.

And with that, the vision ended. And I was back in my bed. And I was sobbing.

Sobbing for everyone who needs to hear this. Sobbing for those who won’t listen. Sobbing at the urgency of the hour.

Sobbing at the love of Jesus that would give me this vision, this warning, this opportunity to share it.

And so now I’m going to ask you directly. Are you going to respond? Are you going to take the seven action steps?

Are you going to use this weekend to move from called to chosen? Or are you going to ignore this, dismiss it, tell yourself it doesn’t apply to you, and continue living the same way you’ve been living?

Because here’s the truth. If you’ve watched this far, if you’ve sat through all 16 parts of this message, if you’re still here listening, then God is speaking to you.

This isn’t random. This isn’t coincidence. The Holy Spirit has kept you engaged with this message for a reason because he wants you to be chosen.

He wants you to be ready. He wants you to be part of the bride.

So, what are you going to do right now in this moment? What are you going to choose?

I want you to do something. If you’re ready to commit, if you’re ready to take the seven action steps, if you’re ready to move from called to chosen, I want you to type in the comments, I choose to be chosen.

Not because the words themselves have power, but because making that public declaration matters. Because it’s you drawing a line in the sand.

It’s you telling God, telling yourself, telling the spiritual realm that you’re serious. And then I want you to get on your knees right now.

I don’t care where you are. I don’t care if people are around. Get on your knees and I want you to pray the surrender prayer that Jesus instructed.

Say it out loud. Mean it from your heart. And then follow through on the action steps this weekend.

And for those of you who are feeling resistant, who are thinking, “This is too extreme.

This is too much. I’m not ready for this level of commitment.” I want to say this as lovingly but as clearly as I can.

You’re not ready for Jesus to return then. And if he comes back today, tomorrow, next week, next month, you will be left behind.

And everything you’re trying to hold on to, everything you think is too valuable to surrender, you’re going to lose anyway.

The only question is whether you lose it by choice now, surrendering it to Jesus and gaining everything, or whether you lose it by force later when it’s taken from you in the judgments of the tribulation and you gain nothing.

I know that’s hard to hear. I know it sounds harsh, but it’s the truth.

And I love you too much to tell you comfortable lies. I’d rather offend you with truth than comfort you with deception.

Jesus is coming soon. The door is closing. The time is short. And you have a choice to make.

Choose to be chosen. Choose surrender. Choose Jesus above all else. Choose eternal reward over temporary comfort.

Choose to be ready. And if you’re not sure you’re even saved, if you’ve never genuinely given your life to Christ, then start there.

We covered that earlier, but I’ll pray it again for anyone who needs it. Jesus, I’m a sinner.

I can’t save myself. I believe you died for my sins and rose again. I’m asking you to forgive me.

To save me, to make me new. I surrender my life to you. I make you, Lord.

Fill me with your Holy Spirit. Transform me and help me to live for you from this day forward in Jesus’s name.

Amen. If you prayed that and meant it, welcome to the family. Now, follow through on the seven steps to move from called to chosen.

I want to pray one final prayer over everyone watching and then I’m done. I’ve said everything I need to say.

Father, I thank you for everyone who’s watched this message. I thank you that you love them so much that you would give this warning, this call, this opportunity.

I pray right now for every person hearing this that you would give them courage to respond.

That you would break through every barrier, every excuse, every fear, every resistance that your Holy Spirit would convict them, would draw them, would empower them to surrender completely.

I pray for those who are struggling with specific sins, with specific areas of compromise.

Give them the strength to confess, to repent, to turn away completely. I pray for those who are wrestling with surrender, who are afraid of what you might ask of them.

Give them faith to trust you, to believe that your plans are better than theirs, that you can be trusted with their entire lives.

I pray for those who have been hurt by the church, who are carrying unforgiveness and bitterness.

Heal those wounds. Help them to forgive. Help them to not let the failures of people rob them of relationship with you.

I pray for marriages that are struggling, for families that are divided, for relationships that have been damaged by sin.

Bring healing. Bring restoration. Bring breakthrough. I pray for those who are trapped in addiction, in bondage, in patterns they haven’t been able to break.

I speak freedom over them right now in Jesus’s name. I declare that the chains are broken, that the strongholds are demolished, that they can walk in victory starting today.

I pray for pastors and leaders who are watching this who know they’ve compromised, who know they’ve watered down the message, who know they’ve prioritized growth over faithfulness.

Give them the courage to repent. Give them the boldness to start preaching truth again regardless of the cost.

Raise up a generation of leaders who will not compromise, who will not back down, who will prepare your people for your return.

And Lord, I pray that you would move powerfully this weekend. That this would be a weekend where thousands, maybe millions, move from called to chosen, where people all over the world respond to this message and make the decision to fully surrender.

Let this be a historic moment in the body of Christ. Let this be a turning point.

And Jesus, come quickly. We’re ready. The chosen are ready. We’re watching for you. We’re waiting for you.

We’re longing for your return. Even so, come Lord Jesus. In your mighty name, I pray.

Amen. That’s it. That’s everything. All 16 parts. Everything Jesus showed me. Everything he told me to say, I’ve been obedient.

Now it’s your turn. Share this video. Get it to everyone you know because there are people in your life who need this message.

People who aren’t ready, people who are going to be left behind if they don’t hear this and respond and then follow through.

Take the seven steps this weekend. Don’t delay. Don’t procrastinate. Do it now. I love you all.

Jesus loves you even more. And I’ll see you on the other side of this, either at the rapture or in future videos as we continue to prepare for his return.

Choose to be chosen. The door is still open, but not for long. God bless you in Jesus’s name.